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Wired is running an article discussing how the effects of the BlackBerrys, cellphones, thumb drives and Gmail are affecting our memory.

This summer, neuroscientist Ian Robertson polled 3,000 people and found that the younger ones were less able than their elders to recall standard personal info. When Robertson asked his subjects to tell them a relative’s birth date, 87 percent of respondents over age 50 could recite it, while less than 40 percent of those under 30 could do so. And when he asked them their own phone number, fully one-third of the youngsters drew a blank. They had to whip out their handsets to look it up.

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David Pogue, a technology blogger for the New York Times has published an interview with Bob Lutz, vice chairman of global product development at General Motors. The interview discusses in length GMs up coming electric car the Volt.

Mr. Lutz understands the skepticism behind any electric car initiative from GM or any of the big 3. He addresses this by establishing a “sneak preview” program so that journalists and the media can see the car through it’s various stages of development.

The intention is to have this car production ready by Q4 2010, Q1 2011.

I hope it’s as cool as the Tesla Motors Roadster, slated for release next year.

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