The generation that memorized phone numbers, gave directions using landmarks, and navigated by instinct built a relationship with the physical world that GPS and contact lists have made impossible to develop — and the thing they lost wasn't convenience, it was a form of spatial intelligence that made them participants in their environment instead of passengers
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The generation that memorized phone numbers, gave directions using landmarks, and navigated by instinct built a relationship with the physical world that GPS and contact lists have made impossible to develop — and the thing they lost wasn’t convenience, it was a form of spatial intelligence that made them participants in their environment instead of passengers

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