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Originally Posted by LightningZERO
That's a bit extreme, but I think in line with Mr Cyborg's talk about human too dependant on technology.
It's not exactly a good example, but we used to memorize telephone contact numbers but now we have our phones to do all the recording and memorizing for us. Will there be a day where we even need devices to recall people face? Hmm...scary thoughts
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Both are extrapolation of the ancient argument that writing makes people's memories atrophy by giving us external aids.
In this case, however, I find the extrapolation unbelievable. Facial recognition is an instinctive ability that exists in infants, presumably having evolved over millions of years. By contrast, numbers is a human invention and quite non-standard over different isolated groups. The show is asking to much to believe in that. (It's also rather poor narration to leave this information in a magazine somewhere with not even a hint in the show proper)