tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2319453613836766610.post987292311160086812..comments2023-10-23T23:35:22.776+02:00Comments on Cross Words: On Memory...and BooksTed Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09022309459554237650noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2319453613836766610.post-31431535353328320672011-06-23T15:16:18.447+02:002011-06-23T15:16:18.447+02:00I was going to comment but Micheal stole my reply....I was going to comment but Micheal stole my reply.Buddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17142269413009487783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2319453613836766610.post-73537407909660776292011-06-22T18:35:26.936+02:002011-06-22T18:35:26.936+02:00I was going to write a poignant reply to this blog...I was going to write a poignant reply to this blog post but I don't remember what I was going to say.Michael Offutt, Phantom Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10557969104886174930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2319453613836766610.post-18222581065424074892011-06-21T05:30:47.827+02:002011-06-21T05:30:47.827+02:00It's a question of what people choose to memor...It's a question of what people choose to memorize. Think of how many people know hundreds of quotes from TV shows, scripts of cartoons they haven't seen since childhood, or thousands of pop songs from adolescence.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2319453613836766610.post-1140631228822803882011-06-20T19:34:44.374+02:002011-06-20T19:34:44.374+02:00The internet is amazing. Don't know what I'...The internet is amazing. Don't know what I'd do without it at this point.<br /><br />More disturbing than internet, is the schools wanting to stop teaching handwriting to children. What? This stuns me.M Paxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14096697282530998519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2319453613836766610.post-43210340947176529972011-06-20T17:50:57.019+02:002011-06-20T17:50:57.019+02:00L.G., a nice big EMP would really do some serious ...L.G., a nice big EMP would really do some serious damage! It was cool of Nathan to pick out my post, but I worry that people won't understand that I didn't purposely craft the post for his front page (I might have crafted it a bit better if I had known) and that they are misinterpreting what I said as being negative toward the internet. I love the internet and wouldn't want to live without it. I just believe there are societal consequences that won't be easily seen for a few centuries.Ted Crosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09022309459554237650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2319453613836766610.post-5248850262339931832011-06-20T17:38:52.216+02:002011-06-20T17:38:52.216+02:00You got triple posted on this. Here, the forum, an...You got triple posted on this. Here, the forum, and on Nathan's blog.:D<br /><br />Yes, the old bards memorized everything -- songs, history, stories, morals. I don't think it is a problem having things written down in terms of memory, but I do worry about our society depending on electronic devices to store our history. Think about it...photos are all digital now, books are going digital, song recordings, speeches, everything. If we ever lose the power to fire up our computers we are going to suffer a big loss of data, IMO.Luanne G. Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15762881276976395955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2319453613836766610.post-35420101463356315312011-06-20T17:20:25.747+02:002011-06-20T17:20:25.747+02:00Please note that I am not judging against the inte...Please note that I am not judging against the internet. While it has both good and bad qualities, it is as inevitable as books were, so I am not mourning it so much as wondering where it will take us. I read what so many viewed as the impact of books on memory, and it struck me that the internet was just as huge a game changer.<br /><br />I believe that once mind/data interfaces become a reality, it will have the largest single impact on humans of any invention, at least eventually. I am always a long-term thinker, while most people I know tend to view history in smaller chunks.Ted Crosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09022309459554237650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2319453613836766610.post-67340495123586356992011-06-20T17:06:39.794+02:002011-06-20T17:06:39.794+02:00What Joseph said. And now people with little acces...What Joseph said. And now people with little access to knowledge, in terms of personal memory or large numbers of books, now have the world at their fingertips.<br /><br />What they do with that world could be interesting...Bryan Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09555071335245492790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2319453613836766610.post-89031123233440044322011-06-20T12:50:43.101+02:002011-06-20T12:50:43.101+02:00That seems reasonable. At the same time, I would c...That seems reasonable. At the same time, I would contend people have a much larger knowledge base comprised of smaller nuggets of information. Thus they can know there's more information to be had on any given topic by recognizing key points and go to a source to expand on that information.Joseph L. Selbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16629531390894108695noreply@blogger.com