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Your Mind In Your Back Pocket

Started by sbspalding · 1 year ago

In the not so distant past everything you knew was carried around in the gray matter between your eyes and the back of your skull, and if you couldn’t remember a fact outright your only other choices were to find someone who could or search through any one of a thousand scraps of paper until [...]




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  • Nicholas Barrett

    1 year ago

    I was thinking about this the other day when I couldn't find my phone... I was thinking about how I'd rather lose my wallet than my phone. At least I could call and get my credit/debit cards shut off!

    It's that terrible? Rather lose my money and access to it that my "connectivity"?
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  • Porch Lifts

    1 year ago

    I have almost always remembered phone numbers. In fact I could probably recite most of the people that I know off of the top of the head as well as a few of my old jobs.

    I have broken away from this habit a little bit, but still only rely on my cell phone to remember business contacts. I think I would be okay if all the cell phones were to disappear, but I know a lot of people that would be out of luck.
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  • ophelia_chong

    1 year ago

    cell phone. because i hate it and i am getting a new one in july.
    IDs are really a pain to get, so is credit cards.

    Ever wait in line at the DMV? or have to call each credit card company?
    Even worse loose all those Frozen Yogurt punch cards (buy 10 get 1 free!)

    :O)
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  • sbspalding

    1 year ago

    I've lost a lot of things in my life but I miss my coupons the most. :)
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  • Lisa Creech Bledsoe

    1 year ago

    All my cell info is synced with my computer. I'd do a remote wipe of the cell and still have all my data. And any smart data-worker/user makes regular backups. It goes hand in glove with handling and being responsible for so much data at once. That's also why cloud computing (keeping all your data at a remote location rather than on your computer) is on the rise.

    Our culture is already more dependent on search than it is on rote memorization. Both have ups and downs. I get irritated that my kids' school curriculum focuses almost entirely on memorization. Public schools may take longer to shift gears, I guess, but I hope that in the future they will do better at helping the new generations learn search (and back up!) capabilities as well as memorization-based stuff.
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  • cocoy

    1 year ago

    yeah. maybe we don't need to remember/memorize everything but we got to keep most important data up in our ram (brain). power failures, natural disasters can still wreck havoc on our digital universe.
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  • מיתוג אישי

    1 year ago

    cell phone are like a disease in israel, almost all people have one or two (-:
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  • ferguson

    1 year ago

    I like
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  • ferguson

    1 year ago

    This discussion leads to the question whether the whole school system should adjust to fact that there is no need to memorize all facts. A large emphasis should be put on the students ability to evaluate whether a souce on the Internet is true or not. For example can wikipedia be used as a souce in a hand in? Many schools actually say no to this.
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  • sbspalding

    1 year ago

    I think that's a big part of it. Teachers and the education system at large needs to begin embracing the fact that the web does have a world of accurate, useful information on it. Certainly it isn't perfect, but that's not really the point.
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