Digital dependence 'eroding human memory'

[Animavore]

I have everyone's phone numbers memorised. You never know when an EMP burst is going to take out all our electronics and then how would we be able to contact each other to make sure everyone is safe if we can't remember each other's number?

I used to remember phone numbers. And addresses. And appointments. I heard something once and it stuck. Until I was about 24 - then I couldn't do it anymore. I guess my brain was full and things started dropping out. Up until then I never had a diary, phone or address book - I just remembered everything. I was fucked for years when it stopped.

But that was long before the Interwebz.

The idea of talking about a brain as something that can be 'full', as if ideas and concepts have calories, is weird to me.

It's more a question of the number of available synaptic connections being finite. I had an eidetic memory for certain classes of facts - mainly abstract and numeric - between my early teens and mid-twenties. These days I am lucky if I know what day it is today, let alone what day I need to sign on!

You and I wanked to different things.

[Animavore]

Gin is a well-known cure for memory problems. Fact!

Sure. You can always rub the lamp and wish those problems away.

[Hermit]

I have everyone's phone numbers memorised. You never know when an EMP burst is going to take out all our electronics and then how would we be able to contact each other to make sure everyone is safe if we can't remember each other's number?

You'll find that an EMP burst will take out the entire phone system.

[Animavore]

I have everyone's phone numbers memorised. You never know when an EMP burst is going to take out all our electronics and then how would we be able to contact each other to make sure everyone is safe if we can't remember each other's number?

You'll find that an EMP burst will take out the entire phone system.

Did you think I didn't know this or are you in on the joke. I can't tell.

[Hermit]

I have everyone's phone numbers memorised. You never know when an EMP burst is going to take out all our electronics and then how would we be able to contact each other to make sure everyone is safe if we can't remember each other's number?

You'll find that an EMP burst will take out the entire phone system.

Did you think I didn't know this or are you in on the joke. I can't tell.

Oh! A German joke. You tricky trickster, you.

[cronus]

Thinks, probably the porn doing it. Bad now - imagine what all this robot sex will do?

[NineBerry]

The point about telephone numbers is that you even don't have to dial them anymore, because they are stored on the telephone!

[Animavore]

The point about telephone numbers is that you even don't have to dial them anymore, because they are stored on the telephone!

I remember numbers by the pattern they make when dialled rather than remember the number.