“E”時代 還記得家人的生日嗎？
Remember your home phone number? Forget it!
Can't remember life before mobiles? Chances are you'll also struggle to recall your home phone number and family birthdays.
Can't remember life before mobiles? Chances are you'll also struggle to recall your home phone number and family birthdays.
According to a survey released on Friday, the boom in mobiles and portable devices that store reams of personal information has created a generation incapable of memorizing simple things.
A quarter of those polled said they couldn't remember their landline number, while two-thirds couldn't recall the birthdays of more than three friends or family members.
The tech-savvy young fared worse than older people. The under-30s could remember fewer birthdays and numbers than the over-50s, according to the survey.
Two-thirds said they relied on their phone or electronic organizer to remember key dates.
"People have more to remember these days and they are relying on technology more for their memory," said Ian Robertson, professor of psychology at Trinity College, Dublin.
Researchers polled 3,000 people over the last two weeks in the survey for Puzzler Brain Trainer magazine.
electronic organizer:電子記事本
不記得沒有手機的日子了？可能你也記不清家裏的電話號碼和家人的生日了。
據上週五公佈的一項調查，隨着可存儲大量私人信息的移動產品和便攜設備的興起，如今的人連最簡單的事也記不住了。
四分之一的受訪者自稱不記得家裏的電話號碼；三分之二的人最多能記得三個親戚或朋友的生日。
“精通科技”的年輕人在這方面可不如年齡較大的人。調查顯示，30以下的年輕人能記得的生日和電話號碼比50歲以上的人少。
三分之二的受訪者稱，他們主要靠手機或電子記事本來幫助自己記一些重要的日子。
都柏林聖三一學院的心理學教授伊恩·羅伯特森說：“如今人們記這些日子的手段越來越多，而且他們的記憶更爲依賴科技手段。”
此項爲《智力訓練》雜誌開展的調查於上兩週進行，共有3000人蔘與。
