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Re:Google, You Creepy Sonofabitch by kinkrtyavimoodh on Thursday January 18, 2018 @12:35PM (#16179149)
Well, my memory is good enough to remember that in the pre-Google world I had no way to find out reviews of restaurants in a city I was visiting, let alone 'memorize' them.
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Re:Google, You Creepy Sonofabitch by yellow_postit on Thursday January 18, 2018 @11:59PM (#16184237)
Travel guides have been a thing for a very long time
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Re:Google, You Creepy Sonofabitch by ralusek on Friday January 19, 2018 @12:34AM (#16184343)
But that's just another memory surrogate...
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Re:Google, You Creepy Sonofabitch by gargravarr on Friday January 19, 2018 @10:19AM (#16186820)
It's commonly quoted (probably inaccurately) that Einstein never bothered remembering his home phone number because it could easily be looked up in a phone book. The brain very regularly expands outside itself to think or remember, almost like subcontracting.

Smartphones have just made them a one-stop shop for all our external thinking now.

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