Brooke McNamara
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 22 Jul
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Sure.
We've been offloading to technology, even things that we don't think of as technology for quite a long time.
So back in 370 BCE, Plato lamented that we would lose our memories and those skills because we suddenly had writing and that people would then just start using writing and not work on the great memorization that a lot of people had, where they would lure.
Stories that could go on for days.
And he's not wrong, right?
We did lose those skills, but we're okay with them because most of the time we do have access to jotting down ideas.
And this has, of course, have gone through the times where we have lost some of these skills.
Depending on the age of the listener, you might remember knowing a lot.
Of phone numbers when you were a kid.
Right.
And we don't know too many phone numbers these days.
But that's something that we're just sort of willing to be okay with that that we've lost that.
Um, you mentioned GPS.
Uh, a lot of people, at least anecdotally, don't think that they have the same spatial navigation skills or uh will sort of develop a good mental map as quickly as they used to without.
But again, we usually have access to it.
So these are all skills that have indeed, at least for a lot of people, maybe have uh reduced or or atrophied, but generally as a society, we're okay with it.
That said, whenever a new technology comes around, there is kind of this panic.
Um, so Orban defined it as the Sisyphian cycle of technology panics.
So we're in a state now.
So not too long ago, it was the internet and Google.
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