"Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books."

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Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone.

— Joshua Foer