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In the same way that having contacts in our phones has prevented people from memorizing numbers or using digital maps weakens spatial orientation and reasoning,
by upsidesinclude 4y ago
In the same way that having contacts in our phones has prevented people from memorizing numbers or using digital maps weakens spatial orientation and reasoning, using autopilots and computers in navigation over time will dumb down the herd. Eventually we come to the point where no one will be able to do this simple calculation.
Fortunately, for much of the professional maritime industry plotting navigational charts by hand is still standard practice
- Shorel 4y agoI have a contacts application in my phone and I memorize a few numbers still. Mainly my own number, which I actually never dial. So I had to use the contacts app to check it, and after about the fifth time, I had memorized it. By surprise, as I did not intend to do it.
- samatman 4y agoI've never had difficulty finding a number with personally mnemonic substrings. Example: my latest number has (of course) the state area code, then three numbers which are the same as my area code growing up, followed by the two-digit year I got the number, leaving me two digits of pure entropy to memorize. Do I have any other numbers memorized? Lol, I do not. It would be a good idea to memorize one number I could call from jail (things happen), but those have to be land lines, and I don't think I know anyone with one of those anymore.
- cameronh90 4y agoI remember my own number for much the same reason, but I don't remember any others. Interestingly I still remember the (long dead) numbers for my childhood friends, grandparents and parents house.