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Well, my memory is good enough to remember that in the pre-Google world I had no way to find out reviews of restaurants in a city I was visiting, let alone 'mem
by kinkrtyavimoodh 9y ago
Well, my memory is good enough to remember that in the pre-Google world I had no way to find out reviews of restaurants in a city I was visiting, let alone 'memorize' them.
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- yellow_postit 9y agoTravel guides have been a thing for a very long time
- ralusek 9y agoBut that's just another memory surrogate...
- gargravarr 9y agoIt's commonly quoted (probably inaccurately) that Einstein never bothered remembering his home phone number because it could easily be looked up in a phone book. The brain very regularly expands outside itself to think or remember, almost like subcontracting. Smartphones have just made them a one-stop shop for all our external thinking now.