<div dir="ltr"><div>Yes, a similar criticism was levelled at "Young People These Days" for at least the last 2000 years.</div><div><br></div><i>"For this invention </i>[writing]<i> will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise."</i><br>Plato's Phaedrus, ~370BC<div><br></div>I recall a high school Principal in the mid-1990s berating a student for using a calculator. "What are you going to do when you lose it or the battery goes flat, sonny? You should develop your memory"<div><br><div>A few days later, the same student was with the Principal, who was looking at his diary trying to find a time to meet with a parent- "What are you going to do when you lose that diary? You should develop your memory".</div><div><br></div></div><div>kp</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Mark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I have noticed this effect myself, especially with phone numbers.</div><i><div><i><br></i></div>Have you heard about the internet rewiring our brains and eating our memories? In her new book Mind Change, publicity expert Baroness Professor Susan Greenfieldclaims this is what’s happening. She describes the “Google Effect” where the internet becomes like an external memory bank. She cites research published in 2011 by Betsy Sparrow and colleagues – people who saved facts on a computer were less able to recall those facts later as compared with people who were told the facts would be erased. If we rely on computers in this way, what might become of us? “Imagine that in the future people become so used to external access for any form of reference that they have not internalized any facts at all,” Greenfield warns.</i> <div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/11/paper-effect-note-something-youre-likely-forget/" target="_blank">http://www.wired.com/2014/11/paper-effect-note-something-youre-likely-forget/</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Mark Kelly</div><div>mark AT vceit DOT com</div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><i>I love the sound of people's voices after they stop talking.</i></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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