Think of a Number ... Come On, Think!, The New York Times, 10 Mar 2005

“If you're like some of the 176 million mobile-phone subscribers nationwide, it may have been before you got your cellphone, because - perhaps unintentionally - you've become reliant on the gadget as both a communication device and a phone book. Is technology, in this case, dumbing people down? Or maybe there are just so many cell, home, business, pager and fax numbers nationwide - about 531 million, according to a recent Federal Communications Commission report, with multiple numbers and even multiple area codes in many households - that consumers are simply taking advantage of a device more suited to number storage than the human brain.�

Full story at http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/10/technology/circuits/10numb.html?ex=1268197200&en=4f0546f429ebe294&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt