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How about journalists stop telling us what we're doing wrong and what we should start doing/not doing because the journalist had some simple-minded eureka momen
by Cougher 7y ago
How about journalists stop telling us what we're doing wrong and what we should start doing/not doing because the journalist had some simple-minded eureka moment? GPS use is not an either/or thing where if you use GPS, you NEVER don't use GPS. These researchers who are finding atrophy in the hipposcampus due to less use need to ask "less use compared to what?" Compared to people who use it more? Congratulations for seeing the obvious. Less use compared to the way the hippocampus grew or atrophied in humans decades and centuries ago when they didn't use GPS and also didn't regularly travel vast distances or study maps to do so?
- StavrosK 7y agoI couldn't read the article because of the pay wall, but if the argument is "stop using GPS because it weakens some part of your brain", it's the same old argument. It's frustrating to me to see this rehashed all the time because it amounts to "stop using a useful thing because it degrades your skills when you don't have that thing". Yeah, the reason I don't care about memorizing a hundred phone numbers any more is because I never need to type one in.
- msla 7y agoAnd nobody memorized a hundred phone numbers anyway. Beyond a certain point, people had books (little black books, even) with phone numbers written in them. My point is, whenever people rail against new technology, they tend to forget about old technology and how that was supposed to be the downfall of mankind back when it was new, or at least in the spotlight. For example, before TV, we had novels, and, much like how TV was railed against for destroying your mind, novels were supposed to be dangerous and deleterious: http://www.merrycoz.org/books/CONFESSN.xhtml http://www.merrycoz.org/books/CONFESSN.xhtml http://www.merrycoz.org/books/DEVOURNG.xhtml http://www.merrycoz.org/books/DEVOURNG.xhtml
- tsjq 7y agoPaywall bypass : https://outline.com/muUPmD https://outline.com/muUPmD