Outsourcing our brainpower
Last week I read that the average American consumes 64 gigabytes of data. Per day. Also last week, I read a post on brainbasedbiz.blogspot.com—Memorize More – Outsource Less:
What we’re outsourcing to technology, we’re not relying on our brains to do any more.
The key thing is that the sedentary brain, just like the sedentary body, is going to atrophy.
David Bucci, Dartmouth College
I find both of these posts interesting for different reasons. On the 64 gigabyte side, I wonder just how much garbage information we’re digesting and how that will affect us long term. I think of garbage information the same way I think of soda: consumption has a deleterious effect.
Outsourcing our brainpower is just a compelling concept. We really do. I can’t remember as well as I used to simply because I don’t have to. I wonder if as we move to more and more cloud computing if our memory will get even foggier.
