Regarding our discussion this morning about mobile phones. After class today i was lying in the grass behind ELT smoking and i had a rhythm stuck in my head. It had slowly crept into my mind over the course of the morning. I play guitar and sometimes ideas for riffs just start playing in my head, then i pick up my guitar and try and make them a reality. Ok so i'm at school, planning on coming back to the labs to do some blogging 'cause my trojan thinkpad decided it need a new battery (my trust is destroyed) and this riff's going over and over in my head and i'm worried i'll forget it by the time i get home. So what i do is i call myself on my phone, it goes straight to voicemail and i hum the tune into my voicemail for when i get home. I felt pretty smart and i had that sweet know-how high when you discover extra use out of something you use everyday until later when i realised that i just spent money on helping out my short term memory. I can't even rememeber a melody for another 3 hours? i instantly thought it was a good idea to spend money to help me out on something so simple? is my brain that clotted with stimuli from the world?
Technology 1, Peter's memory 0
DAMMIT.
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I can totally relate to that; not the guitar riff but using technology/money for convenience. I constantly use my phone to record songs off the radio to download later, =)i guess the internet and new technologies is all about convenience. There's a few nintendo ds "guitar" games, there's a "virtual" guitar used at a concert.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00TBL4cYjAs
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