Lazar Dzamic, Head of Planning at London based digital agency Underwired, sent me this today, in reference to a story I tell in the introduction to the book. The point of the story is that technology brings gifts, for sure, but sometimes we lose old skills when we take the bait......
"it reminds me of my encounter with a Russian scientist in the Max Plank institute in Germany: when he joined them after escaping from the communist Russia (SSSR, as it was known at the time) he never use the calculator before: all his maths was being done by pen and paper and basically in his head. No surprise then that his spontaneous mathematical abilities were far beyond anything his colleagues could produce; they had to grab a calculator to solve a problem (quicker, yes, than him), but without it, they were lost."
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