How to get there? GPS
Math problems? calculator
New music? iTunes
Questions? Google
What to watch? Tivo
David Brooks on The Outsourced Brain
Personal information? I’ve externalized it. I’m no longer clear on where I end and my BlackBerry begins. When I want to look up my passwords or contact my friends I just hit a name on my directory. I read in a piece by Clive Thompson in Wired that a third of the people under 30 can’t remember their own phone number. Their smartphones are smart, so they don’t need to be. Today’s young people are forgoing memory before they even have a chance to lose it.
Posted by Jill Fallon at October 29, 2007 11:37 AM | Permalink