Things we used to remember – quotations, phone numbers – we now outsource to machines: why learn anything by heart, when you can Google it?
Today, though we now reveal so much more – teenagers especially – 'when they are effusively 'oh my Godding' ;. leave behind so much less. Texts, tweets and Facebook updates exist in abundance, but they rarely provide the depth of a letter.
Such communications will not linger in an attic to be found at the end of the century by future generations.
The point is that a fundamental aspect of human life – memory – is being altered by the digital revolution, and don't call be a Luddite because I am an enthusiast for all advances in science and
technology, providing they are advances and not snappy inventive aps to make billions from
young turks in Silicon Valley.
Today, though we now reveal so much more – teenagers especially – 'when they are effusively 'oh my Godding' ;. leave behind so much less. Texts, tweets and Facebook updates exist in abundance, but they rarely provide the depth of a letter.
Such communications will not linger in an attic to be found at the end of the century by future generations.
The point is that a fundamental aspect of human life – memory – is being altered by the digital revolution, and don't call be a Luddite because I am an enthusiast for all advances in science and
technology, providing they are advances and not snappy inventive aps to make billions from
young turks in Silicon Valley.
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