Poverty Is Not an Accident

Poverty Is Not an Accident
Nelson Mandela

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Piece of Mind: Is the Internet Replacing Our Ability to Remember?

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Piece of Mind: Is the Internet Replacing Our Ability to Remember? Researchers study whether the use of the Internet as a memory aid leads to a lazy mind, or whether memorization is overrated

Brain injuries, here. Struggled for decades with crates of books, notebooks and other media as an external memory, since I have trouble with my own. Internet changed all that: everything stored digitally, easy to retrieve. Frankly, internet helps memory A LOT! I've learned SO MUCH about literature, science, politics, art, animal husbandry, sustainable living and on and on. I NEVER would have learned all this with books and libraries. Give the trees a rest. If our minds are free from storing minutia, might they not create the paradigm shift that could save us and our planet from ourselves? 

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