Ask Lemmy

Having to remember a bunch of telephone numbers really sucked. I was particularly bad at it, myself, and had to carry around a little address book. I’m so much more happy now that I can store phone numbers in my phone.

I will never forget about Dre

I still memorize phone numbers and directions.

In fact, I’ve increased the amount of things I memorize. In addition to the massive amount of usernames and passwords I have to keep in mind, I have credit card and bank routing and account numbers memorized so I can enter payment information on the fly.

how for right coherent sentences other people red.
also the ability to research things, a lot of people talk about how good it is at that… and it is, for a quick and dirty intro, but it’s always outdated, incomplete, and inaccurate.
it’s basically only good as a springboard to do real, Natural Intelligence, research…
also I hearby copyright ©️ and trademark ™️ “Natural Intelligence” and “NI”

Man, I didn't even memorize numbers other than my own house's when cell phones were something only rich businessmen had. I used a phone book.

I've honestly been thinking about this a lot lately. I'm not proud of myself.

Some people know telephone numbers, some of us don't. 🤷‍♂️ What's the big deal, the point is, you should have an alternate method to access your contacts...

The truth

When the jetsons tech finally kicks in and humans stop flossing both their ends X_X

Music algorithms.

Finding music and appreciating it more because you had to physically search for it at a store and you only had so much money, so you listened to that album over and over. Talking with friends to hear the music they thought was cool and would recommend something to you according to your taste.

Now we have infinite choices and even when we find something new to us, a lot of times quickly becomes forgotten for other music we just found.