Comments on: Is technology making you dumb and dumber-er? http://gigaom.com/mobile/is-technology-m/ Sat, 26 May 2012 06:36:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mark H http://gigaom.com/mobile/is-technology-m/#comment-402247 Mon, 16 Jul 2007 04:31:50 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2007/07/15/is-technology-m#comment-402247

The PDA is a bit of a life saver for reminding you of anniversaries and birthdays, though I haven’t admitted this fact to my girlfriend.

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“25% of Britons don’t remember their landline number”

Kind of an unfair question. After all, how often do I phone myself? :)

]]> By: acjif98 http://gigaom.com/mobile/is-technology-m/#comment-402249 Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:15:01 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2007/07/15/is-technology-m#comment-402249

I couldn’t remember birthdays or my anniversary before technology.
At least I get a reminder now. What I find frustrating is looking at a contact in Outlook and racking my brain to figure out who they are.
I think that is called “aging”

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Damn typo — “won” = OWN.

See, I can’t even fekkin proofread!

]]> By: Mike Cane http://gigaom.com/mobile/is-technology-m/#comment-402251 Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:06:14 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2007/07/15/is-technology-m#comment-402251

>>>25% of Britons don’t remember their landline number

Man, I can’t even remember my *won* cellphone number. I have to look it up on the phone itself. This kind of such is MENTAL DETRITUS to me and best handled by the tools I buy to handle it for me — PDA, cellphone, etc.

Besides, in the future there won’t be any damned phone *numbers*. We’ll be contacted via unique individual DNA prints.

(Mock me now, but live til 40 years out and you’ll see!)

]]> By: Blake http://gigaom.com/mobile/is-technology-m/#comment-402252 Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:50:45 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2007/07/15/is-technology-m#comment-402252

personally, as a young person who’s been addicted to mobile tech as long as I’ve been able to afford it, I don’t think it’s made me any dumber. I know my landline number, and I keep all my contacts in my head and not my phone. Faster to just remember the number than look it up, heh heh.

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