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yaktubi | 5 years ago

Yes but you’ll know and remember the route after plotting it yourself—and spatial awareness increases making you a better driver.

Think of it this way: everything our phones/computers do for us reduces our ability to do the same task in the long and short term.

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jjk166|5 years ago

Yes, and every time I go to the grocery store my ability to hunt mammoths is reduced. Anesthesia reduces my ability to just deal with the pain of surgery. A pen reduces my ability to chisel words into stone.

Exposing us less to the challenges of the past is not a bug, it's a feature.

yaktubi|5 years ago

See your thoughts make no sense because you’re on the computer all day. Mammoths, anesthesia, and pens don’t do computations for people

mosselman|5 years ago

This seems off-topic since the article is about perception of speed.

marcinzm|5 years ago

Instead I can optimize my brain and time for other tasks which are either more useful or more enjoyable.