Remember the numbers?

There was a time, we could remember telephone numbers. From friends, colleagues, businesses, the workshop - all. I had no problem to remember any number.

But than came the "third-party" assistance, speak mobile phones, PDA, computers. And I "outsourced" more and more numbers to those tools. The scary part is, of course, when you lose the tools. In a worst case scenario, your computer would be gone the same day and you could lose your entire contact base.

Anyway, the New York Times writes a story about the whole situation, but while reading it, I realised that while it becomes more difficult to remember telephone numbers, my memory has been trained to do different tasks. Instead of telephone numbers, I am now trained to remember passwords and ATM machine numbers. Interesting!

(By Asia Business Consulting)