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by spupy 2053 days ago
This was taken to the extreme in the novel Accelerando. The main character is mugged and loses his "cyberware". He thus loses the memories and thinking capabilities he had offloaded to the hardware.
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Considering how stunted most people are without a phone and google on hand. Sounds like the main character had a rough time learning to spell and do math again :).
It was way worse than that in the novel. He didn't even know his own name anymore IIRC.
Backups, people! Or at least don't offload your whole identity to an external device.