On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Pranesh Prakash <[email protected]>wrote:
> Dear all,
> There is much to agree with and debate about in this article. Anyone
> (especially the quizzers) cares to take the first swig?
>
> Cheers,
> Pranesh
>
Well...by this logic we should still live in the "karna parampara" of the
ancients as keeping the information in the books also would come to the same
thing...information where it can be accessed and (mis)interpreted, not in
the human brain!
We are probably the only species on earth which has the ability to have
this "extended memory" storage of information (probably, because, I can't
say that with 100% assurance!)...information can always be processed into
knowledge, or misused to our detriment, whether it's getting geographically
lost, or going figuratively astray.
Getting lost is NOT a prerogative of Google Maps or GPS followers. I once
told an auto driver in Chennai to take me to San Thome and he took me to
Santham movie theatre.....this must have been thirty years ago, when no one
knew of the internet in India!
And just to start the thread drift...as a quizzer, this is NOT a cool thing
to say and surely someone will say I am saying this because I didn't get
though the preliminary tests..... I have found the Mastermind quizzes
insufferable..limited, obscure ("my special round is on the use of the comma
in Tolstoy" and then the person answers some unutterably unheard-of
questions on this topic, set by some unutterably unheard-of people), and SO
elitist and stuffed-shirt...even those general round two minutes were
unfair, because I have sometimes counted 8 questions and sometimes 16 in
that time span, when the contestants were answering promptly.
That was after a swift skimming of the article, Pranesh, haven't read it in
detail ...yet! :) There, that's an honest confession....
Deepa.
