Question 4```Developments in electronic science have transformed the art of record-keeping in the modern age. Traditionally, records of events were kept only in people's minds. It depended very much on the retentive power of the human memory.
```Developments in electronic science have transformed the art of record-keeping in the modern age. Traditionally, records of events were kept only in people's minds. It depended very much on the retentive power of the human memory.
This was extremely dangerous as people either forgot events wholly or in part, or deliberately falsified details to suit their various interests. Intermediate arguments were this the order of the day. Even writing which replaced mental recording was not entirely true from these shortcomings as untruths could be written as true records either willing or inadvertently. With the Advent of the electronic memory, however, these dangers now show not only what happened, but also who did or said what, including how and when.```
According to the author, human memory is unreliable because people
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