So, it's true, readin' rots the mind?
Kitty
----- "Suzanne Guinn" <sguinn-OYOQjBJbU/***@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Re: "Due to such technology as writing and reading, people's memories
> are not what they once were..."
>
> Funny you should say that, as that has been the comment or thought
> "forever" as technology developed - even the development of a written
> language and the printing press. When histories and stories were
> memorized and passed down from generation to generation, much more of
> the brain was used. As these technologies have been developed, less
> brain and less memory is required. I can't cite this for you, but it
> is
> something I picked up while in grad. school.
>
> So that's an interesting observation.
>
> Suzanne Guinn
> Cataloger
> Rogers (AR) Public Library
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Esther Mandel [mailto:emandel-Ez8gjcqaRvbA+***@public.gmane.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 4:18 PM
> To: AUTOCAT-***@public.gmane.org
> Subject: ***BULK*** Re: [ACAT] Total Recall
>
> Sandra DeSio said: " I'm sure it will be a historical boon for
> anthropologists and sociologists in the future who really do want to
> know what color my socks are, but even =
> without this obsessive data storage, we already have the expression
> 'TMI'--Too Much Information."
>
> My concerns are a little different. I'm sure that if this became
> practicable, I would surrender the necessity to ever remember
> anything
> myself to my handy-dandy portable memory technology, following
> promptly
> on which one of three things would happen: 1. The memory storage,
> whatever it was, would become fried and everything would be gone; 2.
> My
> memory would be attacked by a virus, worm, etc., resulting in a
> memory
> resembling the doctor's bill my cats modified for me recently--
> partially digested, and the remainder chewed, soggy, hairballed, and
> punched full of cute little holes; or 3. I'd forget my password.
> Due
> to such technology as writing and reading, people's memories are not
> what they once were (or maybe it's the multi-dimensional expansion of
> things we have to remember), but I don't want to lose any more than
> advancing age requires.
>
> Esther Mandel
> Cataloger
> Sarasota County Public Libraries
> Sarasota, Florida, USA
> emandel-***@public.gmane.org
>
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