As we know from the history of the adoption of reading and books as a technology: when you do adopt a technology for the preservation and transmission of knowledge, you can gain some things, but some things will be lost (for instance, the ability to memorize great chunks of information through repetition, and then to recall and repeat them as needed).
I know my memory is not what it was when I was studying multiple languages and performing on a regular basis; I hate the loss. It is something I am trying to figure out how to reintroduce before my brain turns into slurry. I would rather have the ability to memorize at length even if I didn't use it that frequently. You never know when you'll need something like that. I really don't like the idea of a world which attempts to guarantee that you never, ever will.
I don't want to be reachable absolutely anywhere. I want to be able to be away.
Yes. I have a cellphone—I had to get one in 2003 when I moved to New Haven and the landline didn't work until I'd hooked it up for myself—but it is not capable of e-mail or instant messaging and I like it that way. It still flips open, for God's sake. It doesn't have a keyboard.
And now that I have the most recent post of yours, I know at least some of the health problems you're in the midst of, which gives reading this reply now a weird, time-traveling element to it.
Heh. Falling in the theater actually wasn't one of the health problems I was thinking of, because it had just happened. But it hasn't helped.
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I know my memory is not what it was when I was studying multiple languages and performing on a regular basis; I hate the loss. It is something I am trying to figure out how to reintroduce before my brain turns into slurry. I would rather have the ability to memorize at length even if I didn't use it that frequently. You never know when you'll need something like that. I really don't like the idea of a world which attempts to guarantee that you never, ever will.
I don't want to be reachable absolutely anywhere. I want to be able to be away.
Yes. I have a cellphone—I had to get one in 2003 when I moved to New Haven and the landline didn't work until I'd hooked it up for myself—but it is not capable of e-mail or instant messaging and I like it that way. It still flips open, for God's sake. It doesn't have a keyboard.
And now that I have the most recent post of yours, I know at least some of the health problems you're in the midst of, which gives reading this reply now a weird, time-traveling element to it.
Heh. Falling in the theater actually wasn't one of the health problems I was thinking of, because it had just happened. But it hasn't helped.