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The fate of human memory: My latest Wired magazine column
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Quick: Can you do long division? Probably, though you'd have to concentrate to remember how. Odds are you learned this years ago in grade school, but in a modern world filled with Excel and calculators, who needs to actually perform long division by pencil? Almost no-one. And if you stop practicing long division, maybe eventually you sort of forget how to do it. You've outsourced it to the machines around you.
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<span class="title">The fate of human memory: My latest <em>Wired</em> magazine column</span> <p><img src="/images/finger_on_string.gif" align="left" border="0"><br> </p><p><br> </p><p><br> </p><p><br> </p><p><br> </p><p><br> </p><p><br> </p><p><br> </p><p><br> </p><p><br> </p><p><br> </p><p>Quick: Can you do long division? Probably, though you'd have to concentrate to remember how. Odds are you learned this years ago in grade school, but in a modern world filled with Excel and calculators, who <em>needs</em> to actually perform long division by pencil? Almost no-one. And if you stop practicing long division, maybe eventually you sort of forget how to do it. You've outsourced it to the machines around you.</p> |
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