...no, we don't have cash smart cards. But one or two cellphone operators are experimenting with systems that allow you to buy tickets for public transport (mostly buses) using a cellphone. You just have dial a certain number (depends on whether it's an one-hour or 30-day ticket etc) and you'll get an SMS to prove that you have paid for your ride. An alternative version of this includes a magnetic card so you wouldn't have to show your cellphone to the ticket collector. The price of the ticket is added to your phonebill. I haven't used this thing myself, but the bus company say it's more popular than they expected.
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Had the germans not attacked Stalin, all of europe would probably be speaking german today.
Had the Germans not attacked Stalin, all of Europe would probably be speaking Russian today, as Stalin was planning to attack Germany ("liberating" Continental Europe while getting rid of the German threat). Read "Icebreaker" by Viktor Suvorov, for instance (a review).
take a class, read a book, learn. Its around age three if I remember right, we cant remember those years because our long term memory isnt needed or developed.
Erm. Actually, long term memory has very little to do with it.
The reason why we cant remember things that have happened to us before the age of three or three and a half is because our self-concept usually develops around that time. Self-concept has many forms - for instance self-awareness, the ability to recognize oneself, which develops at about the age of 2. Autobiographical memory - or memories from a long time ago - are also a part of our self-concept, and they cannot exist without the "theory" or knowledge about how our mind works, how we think.
The "theory" of what our mind is and how it works develops sometime around the age of three, before that most children don't make a difference between things they have thought of themselves and things that other people have told them. You may have memories of things that happened to you at the age of one, but as you don't know that they happened to you, you can't remember them. Only after we learn how to use our brain can we actually remember things that have happened to us. Some people - the autistics for instance - never develop self-concept, and they can literally look into the mirror and not see themselves in there.
As to spazoid12's question if the memories would flood back after re-learning the languages spoken as a child, my answer would be - maybe. Self-concept is constructed through social interaction and interaction is based on language. As we use some language for thinking, it also has an influence on the way we think. Your self-concept may have changed because you stopped using these languages, and that may have caused the loss of memories. If you re-learn to speak portugese and russian, you may recover your memories, but probably not the way they were...
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...no, we don't have cash smart cards. But one or two cellphone operators are experimenting with systems that allow you to buy tickets for public transport (mostly buses) using a cellphone. You just have dial a certain number (depends on whether it's an one-hour or 30-day ticket etc) and you'll get an SMS to prove that you have paid for your ride. An alternative version of this includes a magnetic card so you wouldn't have to show your cellphone to the ticket collector. The price of the ticket is added to your phonebill. I haven't used this thing myself, but the bus company say it's more popular than they expected.
Had the germans not attacked Stalin, all of europe would probably be speaking german today.
Had the Germans not attacked Stalin, all of Europe would probably be speaking Russian today, as Stalin was planning to attack Germany ("liberating" Continental Europe while getting rid of the German threat). Read "Icebreaker" by Viktor Suvorov, for instance (a review).
take a class, read a book, learn. Its around age three if I remember right, we cant remember those years because our long term memory isnt needed or developed.
Erm. Actually, long term memory has very little to do with it.
The reason why we cant remember things that have happened to us before the age of three or three and a half is because our self-concept usually develops around that time. Self-concept has many forms - for instance self-awareness, the ability to recognize oneself, which develops at about the age of 2. Autobiographical memory - or memories from a long time ago - are also a part of our self-concept, and they cannot exist without the "theory" or knowledge about how our mind works, how we think.
The "theory" of what our mind is and how it works develops sometime around the age of three, before that most children don't make a difference between things they have thought of themselves and things that other people have told them. You may have memories of things that happened to you at the age of one, but as you don't know that they happened to you, you can't remember them. Only after we learn how to use our brain can we actually remember things that have happened to us. Some people - the autistics for instance - never develop self-concept, and they can literally look into the mirror and not see themselves in there.
As to spazoid12's question if the memories would flood back after re-learning the languages spoken as a child, my answer would be - maybe. Self-concept is constructed through social interaction and interaction is based on language. As we use some language for thinking, it also has an influence on the way we think. Your self-concept may have changed because you stopped using these languages, and that may have caused the loss of memories. If you re-learn to speak portugese and russian, you may recover your memories, but probably not the way they were...
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