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I don't agree with this point. We have to remember a lot more stuff these days just to exist. We retain much more information and skill than we ever did in the
by iasay 4y ago
I don't agree with this point. We have to remember a lot more stuff these days just to exist. We retain much more information and skill than we ever did in the 80s. I remember that.
Not to say there aren't other issues but for me at least it augments my capabilities rather than reduces them in any way.
- reaperducer 4y agoWe have to remember a lot more stuff these days just to exist. We have to know more, but not necessarily remember more. You don't have to know how to take care of a horse, grow your own food, preserve different foods for the winter, how to get from a hundred places to a hundred other places, or any of the dozens of methods of mending your clothes, or how to clean various dirty things since we now have all-purpose cleaning methods. People used to have to both know and remember way more than we do today. Today, we mostly just need to know how to search for things online.
- pixl97 4y agoI'm sure people back then would have loved a vast information repository on taking care of horses too, and would have farmed external storage of lots of that information off of their minds. And at the same time they were taking care of horses, they were not taking care of whatever vast information processes their job requires. Oh, and their information likely went stale much more slowly than things we deal with these days.
- pessimizer 4y agoYou're arguing that smartphones would also have destroyed their memories, you're just saying that's a good thing.
- pessimizer 4y agoI used to know at least 20 people's phone numbers. I barely know my own, now. What's your mother's phone number?