Study: Most Americans suffer from ‘Digital Amnesia’

http://wtop.com/health/2015/07/study-most-americans-suffer-from-digital-amnesia/ ^ | July 1, 2015 | WTOP Staff

[MeshugeMikey]

WASHINGTON — Quick, what’s your aunt’s cellphone number? Or your best friend’s from college?

Better yet, tell us what you did on Monday? You may have a tough time remembering because the Internet is wrecking your memory. That’s according to a new study from Kaspersky Lab, which finds Americans can’t commit data to memory because the answers are just a click away.

[MeshugeMikey]

and VERY VERY SOON!!

Mrs Clinton REALLY could use a hand about now

[MeshugeMikey]

I sense that the concept of digital amnesia.....came about to fulfil the focus for a Government Grant..sponsored study!!

[headstamp 2]

Yes. Too fast to penetrate.

The attention span thing I see mostly with younger people.

[Safetgiver]

Gee, it’s standing up looking you right in the face.

[MeshugeMikey]

There we have it The Need For Yet Another Gubment Grant Application.

"Science" has ALL the Answers if we axe the right questions.

Barak Lesko Obama is Glad to .fund...almost..ANYTHING !!

[Up Yours Marxists]

Love the portraits on the wall.

Very becoming of the Marxist in chief.

[discostu]

There’s no reason to remember stuff you don’t have to. Really if your phone stores all the numbers you need then the only thing you have to remember is how to access that storage. It’s efficient. Also these kind of studies tend to discount muscle memory. Sitting right here right now I couldn’t tell you my ATM or house alarm PINs, at the ATM or front door, beep beep beep beep no problem. Like it or not we really do have a finite amount of brain space, remembering things we don’t need to is a waste, so we don’t.

[CyberAnt]

Actually, when you consider that after you’ve turned 80 ish, you have crammed tons and tons of stuff into your head.

So, try to remember that when you can’t seem to REMEMBER a word or two .. it’s in there, you just have to remind your brain that you put it in there some time ago .. and it may take awhile to find it ...... BUT I ALWAYS FIND IT ..!!!!!

How do I do that ..?? I just ask GOD to help me find the word and HE always does.

Therefore, I figure by the time I’m 80 .. in a few hundred years .. I’ll have even more stuff to discover tucked away in my brain somewhere.

[VanShuyten]

Good news to me! I’d thought it was the fault of age, aged bourbon, and aged cigars.

[MeshugeMikey]

come again?

[MeshugeMikey]

its becoming something of a byline for some people

[MeshugeMikey]

that too that too

[MeshugeMikey]

I was desperately trying to remember the terms Rest Home.and Hospice....a few..days...ago

[MeshugeMikey]

Its been going in this direction since man first learned to draw symbols.

[MeshugeMikey]

Obies not ashamed of his sordid past...nor his less than stellar present..

[Stand Watch Listen]

[MeshugeMikey]

Indeed and Amen!

[Colinsky]

Its been going in this direction since man first learned to draw symbols.

A couple dozen centuries ago, Socrates bewailed the scourge of the new technology called "writing."

"For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them.

"You have invented an elixr not of memory, but of reminding."

---Phaedrus

[MeshugeMikey]

A very early Luddite.

[MeshugeMikey]

is it POSSIBLE that thats been Obies problem with the TOTUS all along ? Digital Amnesia?