As good as technology gets - for everything that it does for us, I'm becoming more and more convinced that the downside is that it can and will turn us into mush, in all aspects of the word.
Today, I was filling out a contest entry form and the skill testing question was 50/2*4+11-7. Instead of figuring out what should be a pretty simple formula, I whip out the handy-dandy calculator. In some respects, isn't technology making it too easy not to exercise basic skills?
Along the same lines, the other day, I was at the store, buying bus tickets for my son. The tickets cost $11.50 and I handed the cashier a $20 bill. I was astounded when she pulled out her calculator to figure out the change due.
Unreal - totally and truly. So many of us are just too guilty of being lazy.
In 500 years, we will have mutated to the extend where we don't have legs and we will just have big thumbs for texting - that's it.
Have you seen Wall-E? :)
ReplyDeleteOf course I have - it's a cartoon - did you expect anything less? :)
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