“Who would have believed, thirty years ago, that one day you would carry in your pocket a device through which you could access all human knowledge, and instead, you would use it to store pictures of cats and get into arguments with people you don’t know?”
Well cats are nice and humans combative nature is still there. ;-)
I’m more efficient than that. I use the internet to get into arguments with cats I don’t know.
=^)
CC
That’s great, I love it.
Anyway, I have a good memory, and memory is certainly faster than the internet. I read a lot as a kid, and my parents never answered a question, they told me to go look it up.
So in addition to reading constantly, I’d check out 4 or 5 boos at a time, I spent hours and hours digging through the card catalog at the local or school library looking for references.
I still remember a lot of it, and it’s almost instant. I hated school so I educated myself to at least 4 to 6 year college level, and still look up whatever I want to when it catches my interest.
But I have noticed I never bother to memorize phone numbers any more, they’re all programmed into the address book of my cell phone. Press a key, it’s there. So I can see why a lot of people would commit less and less info to memory, it’s right there online, easy to get if needed.
I’ll probably keep learning the rest of my life, it’s a habit I don’t think I’ll ever break. Or try to. I just started looking up how to make a bow string for example, never even thought about it before until I looked up prices for a string to fit the crossbow I just nabbed at a yard sale. I’m betting that’ll lead to learning how to make a bow too...won’t be the first time I’ve done something like that...