maslow's hierarchy of needs, information needed to survive, not so much hunting, gathering, finding the seeds and plants and food sources that won't kill you, the housing, and clothing to keep you warm, and comfy. but now, knowledge needed for other things, that is readily available via the internet, wikipedia, google maps, google, imdb, sports info, all that information that used to take up space, well, it's no longer, the internet is an extension of the memory. so what takes that space? what thinking will fill the void, what memories, what information rushes into that vacuum? empty knowledge, useful for quiz bowls, a change to emotion, to feeling, or maybe newer connections between random pieces of data? new thought processes, end arounds traditional limitations, time being the final dimension, spatial, temporal, of things in the past, present and future, the change and development over time, and an understand of how that works. |