Do you realize you are addicted to Memory Chips? Potato chips don't feed Potato Head needs for thinking it seems.
From children up to 40 years old, the computer has been part of their entire life, thus are they addicted to the smartphone chipped to replace human brain working & health.
Soon people may be able to add chips to their bodies, accelerating thinking speeds and memory storage and perhaps improving skills or adding education with a simple upgrade chip. What will be the catalyst to get more to switch from carrying a smartphone that thinks and remembers names, numbers, and facts for humans who then get mentally lazy? Some reach the point they can not do addition, subtraction, or basic functions of the day without their phone to remind them with alarms, or let them know from others through their conduit to the internet, their smartphone nearly always by their sides.
This is not the generation over 40 that has the issue with digital instead of analog thinking. This is best described as old-fashioned internal storage of data and retrieval methods for comparison or creation based on the ability to do abstract visualization in the brain rather than a computer. Kids under 35 years old tend to use digital internet fact-checking systems and online systems to verify Truth, to reach conclusions due to their lack of facts and abstract visualization skills that come from being mentally challenged as a child. We have eliminated much of that challenge and developed of the short-term memory buffer size and its ability to store into long-term memory onboard the body and store accurately to be retrieved accurately. That is the only way to be sure of validity when developing theories, inventing things, or creating art that has meaning or purpose.
Most often, this comes later, long after learning how to think, store, retrieve, and create constructs inside the head instead of on a computer. It forces you to use your hands to draw, your mouth to articulate, and your memory to know how to communicate with words that fully describe what you want rather than be too simple to give your concepts form others can also understand or visualize. It is important to have a great brain, your bio-computer when needed for constructs or conclusions that can only be found if validated as logical and possible without using the smartphone to verify.
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