At a Microsoft event many years ago, the author Steven Berlin Johnson marveled at the information, knowledge of relationships, dots that got connected and wisdom that formed in a mother’s brain. He was describing the almost mythical powers of his wife, who juggled motherhood with a career as a medical researcher then a screenwriter, to remember birthdays, schedules, doctors’ appointments, food allergies, and family dynamics, not only of their own children but children in their ecosystem.