My Palm Pilot is a lobe of my brain external to my head
"Schools used to think education was getting kids to memorize lots of facts. Now there's more emphasis on teaching people how to find the information. And that's part of what carrying a palmtop does for you: It lets you find all the information you need, quickly and accurately. In our society, what counts is did we get it right and did we get it fastŃnot the reason it came out that way."
—Los Angeles Times. Blame for failing memories is placed at the keyboards of electronic organizers, personal digital assistants and mobile phones, as they make it unecessary to remember long strings of numbers, but only to find them. Or is it that there are just more numbers to remember?'
