Yeah, I totally agree with your point. In fact, Intellisense, much like you're smartphone, makes things so easy for you that you might say it makes you dumb - but that's just a feature (or bug) of technology -
I mean, growing up (in a world without cellphones) I used to remember all of my friends phone numbers, my grand parents phone numbers etc. I even had a dial card with a 16 digits number and a 4 digits password to use in pay phones that I've memorized so easily I could have recite that in my sleep.
Nowadays I need to take a few seconds to remember my wife's phone number - and except my own number and my parent's home number (which hasn't changed in the last 20 years) I can't remember any number at all...
I completely agree. I still remember my home phone number from when I was a kid but wouldn't know what my best friends current cell phone number is. Technology has made it easier to free up 'mental space' for bigger and better things but if I was without my phone and needed to call someone I'd be really stuck.
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Yeah, I totally agree with your point. In fact, Intellisense, much like you're smartphone, makes things so easy for you that you might say it makes you dumb - but that's just a feature (or bug) of technology -
I mean, growing up (in a world without cellphones) I used to remember all of my friends phone numbers, my grand parents phone numbers etc. I even had a dial card with a 16 digits number and a 4 digits password to use in pay phones that I've memorized so easily I could have recite that in my sleep.
Nowadays I need to take a few seconds to remember my wife's phone number - and except my own number and my parent's home number (which hasn't changed in the last 20 years) I can't remember any number at all...
I completely agree. I still remember my home phone number from when I was a kid but wouldn't know what my best friends current cell phone number is. Technology has made it easier to free up 'mental space' for bigger and better things but if I was without my phone and needed to call someone I'd be really stuck.