[Year 12 IT Apps] [OT] Interesting, but not really relevant to any KK

[Robert Hind]

iAlzheimer's ?

Robert Hind
Retired
Ex Traralgon and Ashwood
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  From: Mark 
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  Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] [OT] Interesting,but not really relevant to any KK


  I have noticed this effect myself, especially with phone numbers.


  Have you heard about the internet rewiring our brains and eating our memories? In her new book Mind Change, publicity expert Baroness Professor Susan Greenfieldclaims this is what’s happening. She describes the “Google Effect” where the internet becomes like an external memory bank. She cites research published in 2011 by Betsy Sparrow and colleagues – people who saved facts on a computer were less able to recall those facts later as compared with people who were told the facts would be erased. If we rely on computers in this way, what might become of us? “Imagine that in the future people become so used to external access for any form of reference that they have not internalized any facts at all,” Greenfield warns. 


  http://www.wired.com/2014/11/paper-effect-note-something-youre-likely-forget/



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  Mark Kelly
  mark AT vceit DOT com
  http://vceit.com


  I love the sound of people's voices after they stop talking.




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