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are our cellphones making us stupid life before YouTube and summer camp for geeks the queue starts right now hey there I'm rich demuro with Cena TV in New York City congratulations applebees and I hop on tying the knot now craving stuffed french toast steak isn't so weird after all now your must click moment we look at ourselves is really leading the next wave of the internet before YouTube there was broadcast com it's the brainchild of Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban eight years ago the site with a very successful IPO and this video takes you on a trip down memory lane all of a sudden we're going to start setting new habits you're going to immediately go to a website like broadcast calm knowing you're going to be able to get an unedited version of the video and then if you miss it you can also go back and watch the archives broadcast calm was the go-to place for streaming audio of sports games and blossomed into much more you know one time I was leaving a voicemail and stumbled while reciting my own phone number that's probably why I didn't get that g for job thankfully I could press pound and record another voicemail but now I know what happened my cell phone is making me dumb that's according to neuropsychology expert Ian Robertson he says an over reliance on technology is making us remember less less we use our own memory the worse it gets apparently before cellphones people committed more digits to memory and now we just look everything up the company who pioneered fast forwarding through commercials is pressing the rewind button with monthly ratings of the most watched ads sure they've done it before for the Super Bowl but now the ratings have a fancy new name TiVo stopwatch service the interesting tidbit here the list of least fast forwarded brand campaigns among top cable networks it's those infomercials even I'm guilty of watching them way too long when broadcast networks are singled out fedex kinko's ads or tops for catching our attention as are those rgx body spray ads mainly because of this girl remember when summer camp meant sharing a cabin in the middle of the woods swimming and playing dodgeball all day then cooling off with a tall glass of bug juice well that was before the ipod ruined every at Tech camp your kids get to do even more of what they're doing at home learning about technology camp courses include adventures in game design gaming athletes no physical activity required digital video editing robo contenders and programming to be fair there are two courses where you spend half your day surfing the web and the other half actually surfing at the beach on to the beta if you stumble upon a website you like and you want to find more like it ulysse it will help you do just that enter in a URL to get started and you list it spits out a list of similar sites the site combs through links keyword searches tags ratings and browsing patterns to come up with their results and if you like the Q you'll really like the q remember we're on two days a week just come back to cnet TV for fresh episodes or you can subscribe through iTunes I'm richest a mural with seen a TV in New York City don't say I didn't tell you so