I have a hard time reciting a phone number.

You hit on something that I've been dealing with, especially lately.  Last October when I went in for surgery, the hospital admittance clerk asked for my daughter's phone number.  I couldn't recite it, or the number of any of my children.  Once a family member gets a number, I punch it into my cell, and then press the button when I see their little face come up.  That's life these days.

CONGRATULATIONS Bob, on having this blog FEATURED in the Old Farts Club group!  

Bob "RealMan" Timm  the system is working "dumbing down people" yes I used to memorize many a phone numbers.... now I do not even recall our last three land line numbers...Endre

Even though I was a mathematician, I never had any interest in trying to recite Pi out to as many digits as I could, haha.

We get small phone books delivered to us, throw them in a drawer, and never use them. I have to admit, while I have my husband's phone # memorized, and one of my sons since it's so similar, I just autodial them. I do still remember my phone number growing up and most of the ones after that!

Who has a phone book, Bob? We get the occasional very thin book delivered to our door and it immediately goes into the recycle trash bin.

Hi Bob, I haven't seen a phone book in years now. Who can remember phone numbers anymore? I am just glad I can save all my calls as contacts if I choose to do so. I often look up my contacts to call friends and family members. My wife says she still remembers my phone number from the 70's when she first came to the states. 

Wasting money on a phone book - do they still exist?  Yikes.

The real phone book is the World Wide Web and our websites Bob "RealMan" Timm 

We do not get a phone book delivered by the "phone company" anymore. In fact, our phone company is not a "phone company", it is a cable company that also provides our TV and Internet service.

Occasionally, we will receive a "yellow pages" book from a private producer. It goes straight into my recycling bin!

I still get phone books - and still have clients asking if I have one! Here ya go!
I can remember my phone numbers when the area code was letters and there were only 5 numbers . . . I have a good memory and know many often-used numbers.
Helping the BF set up his phone, it needed you to plug in your number for auto-billing, he said I don't remember it! ARE YOU SERIOUS dude! LOL HIS own number!
(He knows mine, his daughter's, his sister's, a guy he worked with 30 years ago . . . doesn't dial his though!) 
Technology gives us access to the wisdom of the universe and dumbs us down at the same time . . .