As technology gets better it seems our need to remember once important tidbits of information are simply irrelevant. We rely so heavily on our devices and applications to remember for us, keeping our heads clear for other activities or objectives.
Now, I sit here, trying to study for school. I realize how difficult it is to keep my attention on the matter and the difficulty involved in trying to recall facts. My skills and abilities aren’t in remembering facts, dates, etc, but rather knowing where the information can be accessed in the event I need it.
I think of something one of my friends said during a conversation recently about evolution. “Even now, we are still evolving.” So how are we still evolving?
I think of the technology we have invented for ourselves in the last 10-15 years. How these advancements may effect us evolutionarily. Will our body’s anatomy shift to hold a cell phone better? Our necks get stronger over time from having been bent in a chair staring at a screen. How will our brains behave differently? Will we remember number sequences anymore? (How many phone numbers can you recite right now?). Will we all end up putting our collective memories on the “cloud?”
