Well, I'm reached the end of the book (as if I don't have 10 other books I need to start reading like today)... and here are my thoughts...
(p.176) How interesting is it that when Bell telephone company intially made telephone numbers, they wanted to shoot for the highest #... knowing that as the population increased, our need for more number sequence possibilities would also increase. With that thought, they picked 7 and 9... 7 being the amount of #'s in your phone #, and 9 including the area code. I thought that was very bright of them to think ahead and to research brain capacities --the human brain only really having a 9-number sequential memory pattern.
On with the capacity idea... humans have a friend capacity of about 150 ppl. As they defined it, people who you would not mind stopping and having a cocktail with. Any more than that and we act as strangers to one another. So fascinating. What I found to be even more fascinating was that religious tribal groups mentioned in the book already follow this rule by trial and error, only placing their people in groups of less than 150 people as to maintain the bomding among the group. Cool beans.
(p.183) Gore and Associates... what a smart business mind.
(p.188-189) The idea of transactive memory was also intriguing. It's amazing that people can synchronize their brains to those that they feel close in relationship to, enough to increase the collective memory of the couple.
(p.203-204) Needle Vans in Baltimore?!? Brilliant. Even more brilliant are those that sell them for $1 each. I had no idea about this. In sharing this with my fiance, he knew! (I suppose Maryland natives know a thing or two about their state)
(p.242) The whole smoking section: (by the way, it was not that long ago that smoking was allowed in our restaurants in CA... how wonderful that times have changed!)
..."that does not mean that parents who smoke around their children follow. It simply meanrs that smokers' children have inherited genes from their parents that predispose them toward nicotine addiction."
I've heard people say, "it's in their genes" before, but I didn't actually put that idea to use. I do believe that the ACCESS to cigarettes makes it easier for those kids (even not disposed genetically) to become chippers or try it sooner.
(p.246) Nicotine run higher in depressed people because nicotine has the power to boost the brain chemicals that they lack.
That makes total sense. I had no idea that nicotine was able to contribute to the lacking chemicals... explains why the percentage of depressed individuals is upwards in the 80 percentile range of smoking.
Final thoughts: I wonder, and may ponder in a later blog or forum posting, is there a tipping point for teaching technology? Or raising awareness of technology benefits? Or getting our kids interested in OTHER aspects of technology that can be useful (Of course we already know they are interested in technology...) and finally and probably most importantly... Can WE change ourselves to think like our students do? They have a lot to teach us.
Cheers.
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