07-20-2017, 05:57 PM
A brief comment on the original comment on how GPS makes you dumber.
There were earlier echoes of this. As the frontier vanished and more people moved to the cities, people thought we were loosing wilderness survival skills... which we were. One response was the Boy Scouts of America attempting to keep the old skills alive.
I have also thought the GI good with their hands. If it was broke, they could fix it. That seems to be fading as well.
I suspect that as technology and culture shift, the most useful skill sets shift as well. Overall, I would say the new internet and computer technology is putting a lot more information in the users hand, even if how to get the same information using dated hard copy methods becomes forgotten.
There were earlier echoes of this. As the frontier vanished and more people moved to the cities, people thought we were loosing wilderness survival skills... which we were. One response was the Boy Scouts of America attempting to keep the old skills alive.
I have also thought the GI good with their hands. If it was broke, they could fix it. That seems to be fading as well.
I suspect that as technology and culture shift, the most useful skill sets shift as well. Overall, I would say the new internet and computer technology is putting a lot more information in the users hand, even if how to get the same information using dated hard copy methods becomes forgotten.
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