I remember hearing my English teacher tell me something like this.
Its not a surprise that we become less dependant on ourselves when we have something easy to do all the work for us. And I guess we become reliant on it.
it changed my memory to 1gb
Damn, that makes sense and is kind of trippy.
As far as I can tell, this seems to make sense.
If you know information is going to be available somewhere other than your memory, why bother remembering all of it? It's the same for the internet as it is for textbooks. I'm not going to memorise all the melting points of the period 2 elements if they're stored in the back of a databook.
sorry for offtopic but 4gb is enought for video games + win 7. Or i need 6gb?
Google: It's densening our minds like a paperweight
[QUOTE=Wolfz;31154657]sorry for offtopic but 4gb is enought for video games + win 7. Or i need 6gb?[/QUOTE]
Completely irrelevant for this topic, but 4GB will be fine. Video game performance is highly dependant on your graphics card and processor too, so don't neglect to consider that.
I'd be willing to say this is a good thing.
Having to memorize bullshit is useless. It's much better to learn the general concept behind it since whatever you used to memorize is available in a bazillion different ways.
Hell, I can grab my phone, go on Wikipedia and look up all the information on the ARM architecture right now if I wanted to.
Or the laws of physics.
Or whatever else I wanted.
[quote]She explained that the propensity of participants to remember the location of the information, rather than the information itself, is a sign that people are not becoming less able to remember things, but simply organising vast amounts of available information in a more accessible way.[/quote]
This is something which I'm familiar with. In personal experience it's just much more easier.
[QUOTE=nikomo;31155820]I'd be willing to say this is a good thing.
Having to memorize bullshit is useless. It's much better to learn the general concept behind it since whatever you used to memorize is available in a bazillion different ways.
Hell, I can grab my phone, go on Wikipedia and look up all the information on the ARM architecture right now if I wanted to.
Or the laws of physics.
Or whatever else I wanted.[/QUOTE]
It isn't really a good thing because if you end up in an environment where you need a piece of information but you cannot access it then you're fucked. Learning some jungle survival tips is going to pretty redundant when all you can remember is where you found them.
[QUOTE=Wiggles;31156166]It isn't really a good thing because if you end up in an environment where you need a piece of information but you cannot access it then you're fucked. Learning some jungle survival tips is going to pretty redundant when all you can remember is where you found them.[/QUOTE]
It doesn't work like that....
I like to condense it like this:
Nerds don't leave 3G coverage unless kidnapped.
[QUOTE=Turnips5;31154470]As far as I can tell, this seems to make sense.
If you know information is going to be available somewhere other than your memory, why bother remembering all of it? It's the same for the internet as it is for textbooks. I'm not going to memorise all the melting points of the period 2 elements if they're stored in the back of a databook.[/QUOTE]
I personally like memorizing stuff I read on the internet. I like information being available to me at any point even if I don't have internet access at a certain point.
[QUOTE=STeel;31157502]I personally like memorizing stuff I read on the internet. I like information being available to me at any point even if I don't have internet access at a certain point.[/QUOTE]
I can quote the most random things from Wikipedia.
I don't actively try to memorize them, they just pop up.
I think I need to upgrade my frontal lobe to at least a terabyte. Also my case is the wrong color and I think certain people hate me for it.
I remember lots of snippets of otherwise useless but informative information from the net. I enjoy learning through surfing the net.
However I don't rely on the net. If I can't remember something I simply put "I don't know" or if it is a case of not remembering "I can't remember".
Leave it to rule34 to change your memories in an instant.
I think it is necessary if we are to continue advancing at a such an exponential rate to have nearly all the information that us as a species has accumulated in one easy to access medium. Teachers in schools expect us to memorize and understand tons of concepts when in many cases what they learned at our age is a fraction of the variety of information we are presented with. They have all ready begun to water down many subjects in order to fit it all into our curriculum.
I unfortunately see this in school. So many kids can't do a lot of basic functions like word definitions or basic math. Who needs a calculator to add two numbers together? I do it faster in my head than most these kids enter it in their calculators.
Spellcheck has ruined my already bad spelling. I automatically just type words in a manner that I know the spell check will pick up.
I instantly saw a pun in the thread title :v:
This has the potential to be either nothing or bad.
[QUOTE=Atlascore;31165921]Yeah, the internet/calculators have ruined my brain, I can't do math for shit, although I was crap with math to begin with, even before I saw a computer.[/QUOTE]
Give me a calculator and I can calculate, isolate and find an answer within 10 minutes. Give me paper and pencil and I end creating a new language just to get past step 1.
[QUOTE=STeel;31157502]I personally like memorizing stuff I read on the internet. I like information being available to me at any point even if I don't have internet access at a certain point.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, me too. I don't think rote memorization is the most important thing, but it can be very helpful.
[QUOTE=Wiggles;31156166]It isn't really a good thing because if you end up in an environment where you need a piece of information but you cannot access it then you're fucked. Learning some jungle survival tips is going to pretty redundant when all you can remember is where you found them.[/QUOTE]
Even without the internet, what percentage of the population actually had jungle survival skills?
I dunno, it's the opposite for me. I look up articles in Wikipedia so I gain knowledge from them, and usually I can recall most of it. I like being able to memorize information I read on the internet.
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