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Do you remember any five phone numbers from your contact list? Do you constantly surf the internet for the tiniest bit of information? Do you feel helpless with your memory without looking into your gadgets? If yes, you could be one of the victims of DIGITAL AMNESIA.  Illustrated by Drishya Unnithan Digital amnesia is when you have difficulty in remembering things like phone numbers, or important dates because you are assured your phone is going to do it for you.  DA is forgetfulness, a loss in your memorizing power,  because of too much dependence on the digital platform for its memory. The use of devices for storage of information is believed to be a way of making up new space in our brains for new information. However, we have become too reliant on these devices causing our memory to short-circuit. Not only does it affect the memory power, but also concentration, or as we like to call it the ‘attention span’. Instances like not reading articles just due to its length, ...