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True, although "back in the day" people used to memorize at what times during the day certain routes were busy, and they took alternative routes ("the back road
by cj 2y ago
True, although "back in the day" people used to memorize at what times during the day certain routes were busy, and they took alternative routes ("the back roads" in my area) to get around traffic that could be predicted.
We've outsourced that to an app, too.
- yencabulator 2y agoIn a big enough city that information is too dynamic to memorize. Car crashes, road work, sports events, presidential visits all caused their own microclimate that was not part of the everyday rush hour.
- medvezhenok 2y agoIt also has information on store closing times/dates (some stores are closed on random days of the week, or close early on others), unexpected detours (construction, previously announced road work), speed traps (crowdsourced), and more. Some of it simply wasn't possible before the technology came along.
- tivert 2y ago> True, although "back in the day" people used to memorize at what times during the day certain routes were busy, and they took alternative routes ("the back roads" in my area) to get around traffic that could be predicted. I think "memorize" has the wrong connotation of rote memorization, like you were memorizing data from a table. I think it was more like being observant and learning from that. > We've outsourced that to an app, too. The technology lets you turn off your brain so it can atrophy.