All Those Pictures (what do we do with them?)
I read an article ( Chicago Tribune ) on the Internet last week: That the Internet is Ruining Our Memory Basically someday our brains will be obsolete because we’ll all have smart phones and other devices reminding us to go to appointments, time to pull the laundry out of the dryer, pick up dry cleaning, make a left turn, buy birthday cards, etc. We’ll never have to remember another phone number ever. Most of the really important stuff will be up in the Cloud, and all we’ll have to do is type in a command to retrieve it or pull it down. I already google “that thing that somebody said” and other obscure phrases just to see what will prick my memory. Sometimes I have absolutely no idea at all of what it was I was trying to remember, but after googling and refining my search I can usually find what I was looking for. Now if I could just find what’s in my purse—but that’s another matter. The article talked about “digital amnesia.” In a survey (on-line??) 90 percent said that ...