We're running out of memory

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Wired Magazine ran this story/article on last Friday, Your Outboard Brain Knows All

We're running out of memory. I don't mean computer memory. That stuff's half-price at Costco these days. No, I'm talking about human memory, stored by the gray matter inside our heads. According to recent research, we're remembering fewer and fewer basic facts these days.

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I'm an old fart but had to agree, can't even remember my own cell phone. I usually say, "Well, I don't call myself" Duh.

Got me to thinking, why not come up with some questions to quiz your friends. Half should be history (things they should of learned or pickup before computers and such) then ask them peoples phone numbers, birthdays (things that we use the computer and cell phones for now). Since adults have more time alive then computers have been around, ask you children similiar questions and compare results.

Here's something to think about, will all are knowledge wind up in a computer? If so, if one day say your childs cell phone doesn't work, can they find the library without GPS?                  


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Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I got done reading seldom's comment and forgot the topic.    
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm getting chipped and cloned


Ahhh, What?  
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I got done reading seldom's comment and forgot the topic.


Didn't get that far....counted up how many smilies Philly put and I forgot.

Now, um...what was I doing before I wandered in here.

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
err .. where am I ? I was looking for Venetian Blinds ~ hehehe hahah       
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I was looking for Venetian Blinds


Third floor beside the haberdashery dept.


*edit* or was that the fourth floor...um, maybe the fifth.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
ok.. now if you cant remember things .. then how do you know you forgot them?.. maybe you never knew them to begin with and just think you forgot them.. or maybe you forgot that you didnt know them?
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
So much for the theory of evolution,he for got to put a D in front of it
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
or maybe you forgot that you didnt know them?


I didn't know that I'd forgotten I didn't know them....which is only half as bad as forgetting what I didn't know I already forgotten.
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
er .. But if he'd forgotten what he had already been forgetting, then maybe he has not forgotten that he was supposed to forget that he should have forgot .. and now I think I have forgotten too !!! ( or maybe I did forget what Sir starkers should have forgot ... !! ) ..

( sorry Sir Starkers .. I just had to ..before I forgot !! So Don't forget !!! )

Oh my , I think we are all in trouble !!         
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I never have to tie my shoe laces. Either the shoes don't have laces or they slip on without being tied. I guess it's true I won't be able to teach my children how to tie their shoes.
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I have a 'young' brother-in-law that was head-hunted during the Y2K 'panic' as he was skilled in several 'older' proggy languages....was also 'IT Guy' with a big banking Co [NAB, I think] .....yet I remember he did NOT know how to read an analog clock-face.....

 

 

Just in case.....'analog' clock faces....they are the ones where 'the big hand is on the...and the little hand is on the....' ....

Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
ooooh old timers disease, now what was the subject again?
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Oh my , I think we are all in trouble !!


If we weren't before, we certainly are now....cos of you I now forget to remember I'd forgotten I didn't remember I'd forgotten I didn't remember not to forget.

I guess it's true I won't be able to teach my children how to tie their
shoes.


My kids have grown and have kids of their own....I'm guessing they won't be able to teach their kids what I wasn't able to teach them - whatever that was.

.they are the ones where 'the big hand is on the...and the little hand is on the....' .


On the what? What is the big hand and the ??? ...um...er, little hand on?

ooooh old timers disease, now what was the subject again?


I see you've got C.R.A.F.T disease as well (can't remember a effing thing)
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
got memory?

dam I forgot what i was typing
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I can cope with losing my memory as long as my drive doesn't fail me completely.

Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
as my drive doesn't fail me completely.


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Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Viagra.. This is your pee pee, this is your pee pee on drugs.


Tut, tut.... that's Naughty!!!!

*hmmm, so glad that didn't come with explanatory visuals*
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Im just praying my hard drive dont become a floppy....
Reply #20 from JoeUser Forums Top
Darn, I had to go back to the top of the article 4 times and read some of the replies about 3 times because I kept forgetting what the topic was about and what reply I had read last before going back up. Damn........ Now I have to read the article again to know what to type.
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Im just praying my hard drive dont become a floppy....


Or a USB (under sized boloney).
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Im just praying my hard drive dont become a floppy


hehe I shouldn't really .... I'm praying my floppy was a hard drive ... (sorry !)  
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm praying my floppy was a hard drive ..


Why PRAY, there's man/woman made medications for that now.....

....failing that icicle sticks will suffice when the pharmacy's closed.
Reply #24 from JoeUser Forums Top
So, to the original topic, I'm guessing that due to the way things are taught in school these days, the memory is not being filled with basic facts, never mind anything we forgot.

I ask my wife what the nine planets are, and she can't name them. Of course, that was before Pluto got demoted.

Never mind the planets, then, can she remember other basic elementary school facts? Probably not. But I can. And she can tell me what all the celebrities have named their babies, so there you go.
Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Pluto got demoted


Pluto's still a planet! Silly academic types can change a name but not what's up there in space. "The world is flat, and we can prove it!"

Running out of memory?! We're running out of air!