Quite the opposite, good reminiscence abilities may help you in lots of conditions the place you do not have entry to recording expertise. What in the event you consider an excellent concept within the bathe? Or whereas driving? To not point out that reminiscence abilities can enhance your confidence in public talking (since you’ll have the speech memorized), and prevent the embarrassment of forgetting somebody’s title (you possibly can’t very nicely dig out your PDA to recollect somebody standing proper in entrance of you!).
The opposite drawback with fashionable expertise is that it provides you an excuse to let your thoughts get lazy and neglect one thing. If all your passwords, cellphone numbers, and schedules are in your PDA, what occurs when your batteries run dry otherwise you depart it on the bus? It is not possible to go away your mind on the bus, so why not attempt to get extra data into your head?