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I was in the same boat myself about 15 years ago, and it was bad even then, I cant even imagine how it is now.
You know how we used to have to memorize phone numbers but then smartphones came around and now nobody can recall more than a handful from memory? I’m no better, I can recall my wife’s, moms, dads, and work, but I couldn’t tell you any other relevant number to save my life today.
Now take that paradigm and apply it to general thought. What happens when all our thinking gets reduced to queries and does not grow beyond that?
@Angrydeuce I’ve noticed this in car-drivers for over a decade now. The smarter cars get, the dumber their drivers do. I’ve met people who don’t know how to get into their own car if electronics let them down, even though it’s easy to learn. I’ve met drivers who literally don’t know how to manually control the headlamps in their own car, because they never had to. One even insisted that no such control exists.
‘Idiocracy’ is apparently a documentary of our near future.
@Angrydeuce In re phone numbers, I used to work for a telco, who trained us how to memorize them. It’s easy, once you get the hang of it. I used to have scores of numbers memorized, practically every one I’d be likely to use. But like you, I now remember only a handful that I use frequently, and no more. So I am guilty of this, too.
I was in the same boat myself about 15 years ago, and it was bad even then, I cant even imagine how it is now.
You know how we used to have to memorize phone numbers but then smartphones came around and now nobody can recall more than a handful from memory? I’m no better, I can recall my wife’s, moms, dads, and work, but I couldn’t tell you any other relevant number to save my life today.
Now take that paradigm and apply it to general thought. What happens when all our thinking gets reduced to queries and does not grow beyond that?
@Angrydeuce I’ve noticed this in car-drivers for over a decade now. The smarter cars get, the dumber their drivers do. I’ve met people who don’t know how to get into their own car if electronics let them down, even though it’s easy to learn. I’ve met drivers who literally don’t know how to manually control the headlamps in their own car, because they never had to. One even insisted that no such control exists.
‘Idiocracy’ is apparently a documentary of our near future.
@Angrydeuce In re phone numbers, I used to work for a telco, who trained us how to memorize them. It’s easy, once you get the hang of it. I used to have scores of numbers memorized, practically every one I’d be likely to use. But like you, I now remember only a handful that I use frequently, and no more. So I am guilty of this, too.