Really good read. While photographs (and sights and sounds) are good aids to help us retrieve some of our childhood, I'd like to think that technology is culprit to destroying our memories. Or perhaps, being lazy is. I would commit memorizing my agenda for the next couple of weeks if not for the abundance of smartphones and GTD apps.
I don't think you should view technology as "destroying" your memories. When you use a smartphone or app to keep track of your day-to-day you are engaging in an activity that all humans adapted to an urban setting have utilized. In urban settings life speeds up, we have to do more things, remember more things, plan for more things. This is not a life we were technically adapted to throughout most of our evolution. Technology in this sense has a useful function. They are brain extenders - allowing us to do, remember, and plan for more things that we would otherwise be able to manage. Thanks for reading :)I'd like to think that technology is culprit to destroying our memories. Or perhaps, being lazy is. I would commit memorizing my agenda for the next couple of weeks if not for the abundance of smartphones and GTD apps.