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Why it’s not always a good idea to outsource our brains to technology (or to others)

February 11, 2016 by SharpBrains

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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)

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: cognition, cognitive map, gps, Learning

Don’t Outsource Your Brain

January 4, 2008 by Alvaro Fernandez

brainWe have sug­gest­ed before (The Ten Habits of High­ly Effec­tive Brains)…

“Don’t Out­source Your Brain. Not to media per­son­al­i­ties, not to politi­cians, not to your smart neigh­bour… Make your own deci­sions, and mis­takes. And learn from them. That way, you are train­ing your brain, not your neighbour’s.”

Well, let me add now: Don’t Out­source Your Brain to Your GPS sys­tem, either…

Read arti­cle: here (via Drudge)

- “A 32-year-old Cal­i­forn­ian whose rental car got smashed by a Metro-North train last night was issued a minor sum­mons for caus­ing the fiery crash that strand­ed rail­road com­muters for hours.”GPS

- “Bo Bai, a com­put­er tech­ni­cian from Sun­ny­vale who said he was mere­ly trust­ing his car’s glob­al posi­tion­ing sys­tem when he steered onto the tracks, was cit­ed for obstruct­ing a rail­road cross­ing, offi­cials said this afternoon.”

For­tu­nate­ly, the dri­ver was safe, and there were no injuries. The arti­cle deserves read­ing…here.

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: Bo-Bai, brain, global-positioning-system, gps, outsource, railroad-crossing, train-your-brain

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