I don't disagree with some of your points on the first one, but I tend to look at it a bit differently. Back in the day if I needed to learn something I would go to the library and I would look in an encyclopedia, or if I wanted to read current events I would get a newspaper. People wouldn't have batted an eyelash at that. These days though, all of those things are right on your phone, so why not utilize it. I use GPS all the time, but I still look at the map ahead of time so I at least have a general idea of where I am heading in case the GPS isn't totally accurate. Either that or I know where certain landmarks are, so if I keep going west I will eventually hit the river, things like that. My wife and I try not to rely on anyone for anything because we know people are even more fallible these days as you mention in your second point.
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yeah, i get it. I shouldn't get on people's cases for the GPS thing, I just get annoyed when a guy whose job is to drive a taxi and he doesn't know how to get to, say, the only airport in the city, without the GPS switched on. If you don't knwow where every single apartment building in the city is, that is understandable... but to use it by default is just lazy in those situations and it also results in turning roads into traffic jams because the GPS sends everyone down the same roads and I often wonder if people in wealthy neighborhoods pay the GPS companies to not include their streets in any navigational sense unless it is the end destination.
Oh yeah, I totally get that. When I was driving around cities doing cable modem installs I had paper maps because smartphones weren't even around yet. It didn't take long before I started being able to find most places without the maps. Of course I live in and around pretty small towns respectively.
I delivered pizzas when I was in college for a while. We knew where EVERYTHING was and paper maps were all we had. Cell phones were in their infancy back then and not many people had them. If you got or couldn't find a place you were simply shit outta luck.
Haha, yes, that sounds really famililar!