Sort:  

Yesh, I heard it is mostly ineffective these days due to resistence.

It still has its use in many areas. Or at least its newer forms have :)

From what I understand, it works beautifully, if you really need it. It's when you don't really need it that it doesn't work as well and creates resistence and other issues.

Most of the time people are too lazy to work with memory techniques. They think it is too troublesome. While they still think that I have memorized 100 facts in 5 minutes and go living my life.