Comments on: My Cell Phone Is Making Me Dumber http://andrearbaker.com/2008/07/01/my-cell-phone-is-making-me-dumber/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-cell-phone-is-making-me-dumber Life Through The User-Driven/Generated Web Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:32:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Govy http://andrearbaker.com/2008/07/01/my-cell-phone-is-making-me-dumber/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Govy Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:25:15 +0000 http://vindictiveimmunity.wordpress.com/?p=44#comment-33 You know, I feel the same way about meetings and things that I'm scheduled to do, at home or at work. There use to be a point in time when I could remember everything that was coming up that I had to do. Now, I rely so heavily on Google Calendar, and Lotus Notes Calendar (yeah, I have to use that at work..*ak*) that I can't even remember what's happening until 15 or 30 minutes before it's supposed to actually occur. It's pretty sad really. The regularly scheduled meetings I always remember b/c they're simply muscle memory. Everything else is just a line in Lotus...and Google...and BlackBerry. Thank God for alarm reminders! You know, I feel the same way about meetings and things that I’m scheduled to do, at home or at work. There use to be a point in time when I could remember everything that was coming up that I had to do. Now, I rely so heavily on Google Calendar, and Lotus Notes Calendar (yeah, I have to use that at work..*ak*) that I can’t even remember what’s happening until 15 or 30 minutes before it’s supposed to actually occur. It’s pretty sad really. The regularly scheduled meetings I always remember b/c they’re simply muscle memory. Everything else is just a line in Lotus…and Google…and BlackBerry.

Thank God for alarm reminders!

]]> By: John http://andrearbaker.com/2008/07/01/my-cell-phone-is-making-me-dumber/comment-page-1/#comment-31 John Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:09:59 +0000 http://vindictiveimmunity.wordpress.com/?p=44#comment-31 That reminds me of an episode of The Day the Universe Changed. James Burke talked about how people in the Middle Ages could memorize a staggering amount of information and that ability has steadily declined. That reminds me of an episode of The Day the Universe Changed. James Burke talked about how people in the Middle Ages could memorize a staggering amount of information and that ability has steadily declined.

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