Do you miss your pre-internet brain?

[Kirsten]

Heard this question on NPR... what do you think?

[Jonetta]

Can you elaborate?

[Kirsten]

Maybe you're too young to have one? LOL!

[Jonetta]

Oh, that's so not true:) Just trying to get a better grasp of the question.

[Kirsten]

The person who posed the question was talking about what it was like living without the internet as opposed to children today who don't have a concept of life without it.

[Dawn]

That is hard to answer. I think I went through a period at tge beginning where I was obsessed with it, now I use it to enhance what I love to do. So, Zi guess I do not. It is interesting talking with the kids...not only do they not remember pre internet, they barely remember pre smart phones and everyone has always had cell phones in their tidy world.

[Maggie]

Now that I've gotten used to the Internet, I love it. When we 1st got a computer, I remember still going to the library to get info for her reports, etc, I found much easier then searching online. Now that I've better on both the computer and online I love it. I LOVE Goggle! My daughter calls me the Google Queen. I like being able to get an answer to the random question that pop into my head( answer that I promptly forget).
So my long answer is no, I do not miss my pre Internet brain.

[Jonetta]

We took a 4-hour power hit today so I was thrown back into pre-Internet mode. I don't miss that time. Most of my career involved research and it was so difficult to do and lacked the richness and breadth we have today because we have ready access to what's out there.

Actually, the cellular technology has had an even greater impact because it's facilitated ease of access. I'm amazed at what I rely on cell phones and tablets to do for me today.

Nope. Don't miss my pre-Internet brain.

[Dawn]

My grandfather spent fifteen years researching our family genealogy back in the 1960's and '70's. All by mail and print books. He could have completed it in half the time through the internet...amazing the information out there. We are camping in the desert right now...a really big scary bug was on my trailer the other night. I took a picture, went on the internet and found out whether it was venomous in about five minutes, at midnight. Try doung that before the internet lol.

[Sandra]

I don't miss my pre-internet brain BUT one thing I do miss is letters...actual letters from friends or family far away. Not an email but a hand-written letter. I can still recall the excitement of going to the mailbox (we're rural here & have a mailbox at the end of our driveway) and opening it to find a letter. Now it's all emails or I also skype with a couple of friends who are out of the country right now (& that's great in that situation). Today, receiving Christmas cards is about the closest thing to getting those letters and even it's not the same.

[Elizabeth]

I miss the pre-Internet motivation to learn. I teach high school and a good number of students lack an inherent desire to learn anything because they can just look it up in the Internet. While that is true and the old way of memorizing dates for a history class is obsolete, that knowledge stored in our brains allows us to make connections and intuitive deductions about the world around us.

I feel like the current group of population from around 30 and older is in the best possible situation. We remember what is was like to not have easy access to information, so we are less likely to take it for granted. I'm afraid the younger generation will miss out on not having that skill of remembering basic information.

[Amy]

I agree, plus it's rather disconcerting when you DONT have the tools available, and it's like you've lost the ability to find what you need because we are so used to having it all at the push of a button.