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Originally Posted by Ceili
If I have my phone numbers stored in my cell, my home phone, a paper copy in a notebook and on my pcs, then I don't "need" to remember them myself.
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As an example, I can tell you my first phone number (476-3584), my grandma's (9683585), the numbers for school, my first jobs, my earliest friends first numbers... I cannot tell you my friends numbers from now. Not even one of them!
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Yup, but they had mini phone books way back when before cell phones...
I can also tell you my old house number and such from my childhood years, but now i still have to consult my business card to remember my cell #!!!!
I think its that we put much less demands on our brain.
Like some tv show said..." The brain is a muscle too!!!"
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Originally Posted by Verencat
What a blast!
What I find distressing is that I know I would struggle if something happened to my computer, I'm dependent of it now. As for being more or less intelligent: I think I know now about many more things, but what I knew and learned before I learned fully, I didn't just scratch the surface as I do now. And the shorting attention span is getting a big (huge) issue too. But could I cut the internet use now?
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I do the same thing! If I ever need to know what is something i go to wiki (and even that i skim!). Where as before I used to go to the library and research.
Another bad habit is the mulitpple tabs. i never do one thing at a time...
Then i forget. I always say that im getting Netzymers at the age of 25...
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Originally Posted by wodin
I suffer from calculator brain! I can no longer add two two digit numbers without a calculator. And forget about long division!
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AMEN! I can't even remember my times tables past #5
sheesh im not looking too impressive of a person to talk to on this forum... huh?
