So far I have come to this conclusion: my iPhone makes me a better person.
Since I've been without it for a full day now, I feel myself regressing into a more earlier version of myself. I have a very bad short term memory. If I don't act on a thought, idea or impulse immediately I lose it and never get it back. With apps like Evernote, the Calendar app, voice memos, Twitter and Facebook, and a quality camera constantly with me, I have all the tools necessary to "remember" every important or interesting thought or idea I have.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that I've come to rely on the iPhone to remember stuff for me. I'm saying that I never had the ability to do it, and my iPhone has become a memory or brain prosthesis to help me overcome my disability. Yesterday, when I had an interesting thought, I would pat at my pockets for my phone, realize it wasn't there, realize that my idea was going to fade away in a few seconds and that if I didn't get it down soon I'd forget it, and then give up. Once yesterday I had a good spiritual insight about something I read in the bible and walked quickly to a computer repeating the thought over and over in my mind the way a person says a phone number over and over before they write it down. But I don't have the energy to do that with everything.
So, so far, I've decided that my iPhone isn't just a cool gadget with fun games I can dink around on in the waiting room, even though it is that. It has become a functioning extension of my brain that I trust more than my own memory. Without, I lose valuable insights and become demoralized at even coming up with smart things in the first place.
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