Do You Really Have Three Sequential Alarms to Go to Bed?

Socrates famously lamented that writing was going to make us stupid because it would eliminate the need to remember things. We've never had in our culture, in our history, as a species, as much access to information as we do now. And I think that if we are constantly afraid of our future, it prevents us from being able to take advantage of the opportunities that come along with the future.