Ripley's Believe it or Not...

(Anyone else remember that show? Probably not...)

Or should I call this one "In pursuit of trivia"?

Thursday's class had a lot of fascinating "facts" about what technology can do currently and what it's projected to do in the next few years. Obviously, there have been a lot of powerful technological advances in the past few years.

But I have issue with some of the blanket statements that were just thrown out there. For example, the whole thing about "forget about forgetting." In the examples given, technology isn't improving memory. It would be more accurate to say that technology is making it possible so that you don't need to remember anything -- because there will be something to remind you. Only the last point on that slide -- about mind exercises to improve memory -- had anything to do with the broad, oversimplified title of "forget about forgetting."

I'm all in favor of using technology to make life easier. And I'm also in favor of using technology to free up more "thinking time." I'm just a little concerned that there are some people who will be using technology as an excuse to NOT think and to free up more "Second Life time" -- and that's a sad, sad statement of human nature.