I really agree with you on your first statement... Telephones are ruining our lifes and our brains.
The fact is...when you let a machine do your stuff, what happens is that machines will slowly improve their skills (ex. machine learning) while we slowly lose our skills. The worst effect is that we became lazy, we don't want to use or effort our brain, just because we have a machine that can do the hard work for us. And this is VERY BAD!!
We are filling up with lobotomized people... most of the kids are unable to do simple mathematical operation such as additions or subtractions without using a calculator.
This new generation is the worst that has ever existed on planet earth... and probably will be one of the last ones...
Moreover we are losing our natural ability to interact we each other in person, we tend to live in our separate virtual world made up of social networks and this is EXTREMELY BAD!!
People needs to talk in person to each other more often and try to collaborate and share their thoughts, because another problem related to the virtual communication, is that you can easily misunderstand what other person really mean, while is very hard to misunderstand a person in front of you.
I probably can talk on this topic for hours...
Thanks for this post.
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I've noticed that there is very little human interaction when I am walking around. People are all over the place in this very busy city that I live in but every now and then I will say "hi" to a stranger when I am walking and they couldn't even hear me because everyone, especially younger people, can't possibly do so much as walk without having their phone in their ears. It is seen as creepy to speak to a stranger now.
Just like @bozz was saying above though, the use of some tech is warranted and that is fine but not to the point where you don't know how to do anything because your machine will do it for you and this is especially true with simple calculations. I am regularly in shops where all of the prices are rounded off to the nearest 5 or 10 yet these young people at the counters always revert to a calculator even if the two items I'm buying are both 20k each. One time I went into a store and was buying just one thing and the person behind the counter had become such an automaton that she entered the price in the calculator and then pressed "=" .... I guess she just needed to be sure.
That's horrible. I was a math minor in college for a while and I actually found the deeper I dove into calculus and stuff like that the more I forgot how to do some of the simpler stuff. Pretty sad huh? That being said, working in Radio Shack made me pretty adept at making change.