The Buckets by Greg Cravens for April 27, 2021

You did.

Now if someone asks “Where’s your brain Bucket”, you can show ’em!

I call it my external memory.

Use it or lose it.

I only remember a few phone numbers, but I can still read a map.

There’s nothing wrong with relying on technology… those were all useful skills at one time because we had no alternative. Now we do. At some point in history, hunting, fishing, and farming were essential survival skills for everyone. Now only a relative few need to do it for everyone.

Think of the convenience of carrying your memory in a pocket or bag!

I used to have a decent memory, but then maybe I didn’t. I don’t remember.

Bah, we all think we remembered, but half the time we were wrong.

LOL

It’s so embarrassing to say what you thought you remembered, and be wrong, that the safe alternative is to have the correct info “written” down somewhere.

WELCOME TO TECHNOLOGY! you are just starting to be like your FATHER!!! MUAHAHAHA!!! lol

I used to carry a book around.

It had names, addresses, phone numbers. When someone moved (and in the before time, when numbers actually were associated geographically) changed numbers, I’d use whiteout, and write the address and phone number anew.

Then I got a Nokia 5190 and all my phone numbers went in there. That was 1998.

Do you know how little brains we have if they fit in a phone?

I dont even have a cell phone, my wife has one that has to do the thinking for both of us

you did!

I don’t think of it as dumbing us down, it’s that much more we don’t have to remember. De-cluttering own brains.

I still have a set of maps and a compass in the car, because the day the GPS stops working or goes buggy I don’t want to end up crying like a little girl because I don’t know where I am and where I am going.

I could never remember phone numbers, unless I’d used them a dozen or more times. I can still recite my dad’s old office number and my old home number, but that’s about it. All others were either looked up in the phone book or held in my pocket on tiny scraps of paper which inevitably got lost or went through the wash.

And don’t get me started about the times I’d be trying to find my location on a huge fold-up map, and plot a route that turned out to be wrong because the construction detours took me miles out of the way or the map was out-of-date.

I’ve read that widespread literacy really did diminish the average persons working memory.