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Ignore the GPS. That Ocean Is Not a Road (The New York Times):
“…In perhaps the most infamous incident, a woman in Belgium asked GPS to take her to a destination less than two hours away. Two days later, she turned up in Croatia [Read more…] about Why it’s not always a good idea to outsource our brains to technology (or to others)
Though the human brain is the most innovative instrument on earth, we remain a conservative species. Most of us relapse to old ways of thinking even when we think we are doing something new. Our brain’s “similar equals identical” mechanism, which comes from experience, is both a good and bad adaptation. Relying on experience, which is how we make sense of the world, how we learn, how we build civilization, is sufficient for most workaday matters. [Read more…] about Think Fresh: When Is a Hammer Not a Hammer?
