That sounds right. Anecdotally, some things I have memorised:
- Several phone numbers
- My National Insurance number (UK version of Social Security)
- 16 digit card number for 2 cards, as well as all the other numbers on the cards.
- 10 or so passwords (less important ones are randomly generated and handled by password managers.
So as you say, we may not be able to recite a 50-page poem, but one could argue that it's a lot easier to live in the modern world with many abstract strings memorised, in addition to all the knowledge that's considered crystallised intelligence.
I agree with what you said in this comment and the conversation below. Everyone already pays for access to the internet, either to their ISP or via a mobile data plan (with the majority probably paying for both).
In the early days of the internet, there was no expectation to be paid for creating content - people simply created it out of their own goodwill or because it's their passion.
If I set up a personal website, I expect that to be a sunk cost; people pay for my content with their attention. Obviously, attention doesn't put food on the table, but it's saddening to see the contrast between what the Internet could be, and what it is currently.
In the UK, Lloyds TSB split into 2 banks (Lloyds and TSB) in 2013.
tl;dr
In April 2018 1.9 million TSB customers were left unable to bank online, some for several weeks; this was caused by customers being moved to a new system, which was only tested offline.
"Other failings by TSB that it identified included setting "unnecessary" time constraints, which did not understand the complexity of the project, and being dishonest about the reasons for delays."
Lots of varied, interesting opinions in this thread. For fans of dark mode, there is a Firefox extension that lets you customise colors of every element, and process the CSS in different ways. Been using it for a few years now, and I prefer it to the Dark Reader extension that Firefox recommends.
Using such pre-created styles is a lot faster, easier, and more convenient than manually customizing each and every element by hand yourself.
Knowing how to do that is, of course, a good skill to have when you actually do want to do something custom for which a pre-rolled style does not exist or when existing styles do something you don't like.
I only had the general impression in passing that GGP was his big success that gave him the resources to engage the more recent nonsense. I first heard of him in connection with Valeant more than Herbalife.
It's like, maybe the order in which you have your life experiences is everything.
