Many folks are losing their memory, because they no longer need to remember stuff as much with all the latest new technologies. After all, there's no need to remember any facts or figures because you can only go to WikiPedia, or search any question you have on Google. All the World's information is there, anytime you wish to have it. There is no reason to memorize anything anymore, it is there? In fact, why even go to school to learn your history when you can learn it or look it up anytime you want on the Internet.
To me, one of the reasons to go to school is to get your brain working to help you memorize things and to help you think, of course, in this new paradigm of the information age many people think that developing your memory doesn't make a lot of sense. There's no need to memorize anything anymore. Your cell phone has all the phone numbers built-in to the speed dial that you will ever call, you know most of your friends by name, and anything else you have to look up is only a couple of seconds away.
Still, let me propose a counter argument.
If you do not work on maintaining your memory, you will not have it when you need it most. There are times when you need to remember things like directions of how to get somewhere and you didn't have time to print out the Yahoo map for the directions. I suppose in the future you will have GPS in your car you won't need that either. But there are many things you just need to know and until people are connected to the Internet through their brain, you're going to still need a little bit of memory and you need to develop it. Please consider all this.
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