DUMBING DOWN

Most such displays just want to inform you of whether or not the metric is within a normal range. It's much more sensible to use analogue, because then you don't have to make a calculation for each guage.

Here's a good example from a nuclear power plant control room:



Note the combination of analogue displays, digital displays, and data read-out displays.

Well it depends on what focus group you are talking too. I know some kids who type in texting lingo just because it is faster and speak better english than some adults. I also know some kids who when they try to talk to me I can barely understand. I believe that they will probably end up in those menial jobs that don't really require coherent speacking skills. As I said, it depends on who you are talking about

It always has. Things aren't any different these days than they were hundreds of years ago or fifty years ago. This is nothing more than a bunch of old farts whining because that's what old farts do.

See the analog meters...nope!
http://www.myflukestore.com/g40/electrical.php?gclid=CJKinMjX4qYCFQwCbAodFxXYzw

Further, try finding someone that can properly/accurately read an analog multi-scale VOM...and I teach analog metering. For better or worse it's a dieing display technology.

dying

It didn't create itself; it's BEEN created by government schools, the NEA, and the demo-KKK-rat party.

There's analogue meters all over the walls in that picture, genius. The point, which you are probably too dim to get, is that diplays of values withing ranges are much easier to track with an analogue dial than with a digital readout. It wasn't a reference to hand-held meters, bright boy--your link is meaningless.

Best would be to outlaw and ban the demokkkrat party, which isn't likely to happen.

Second best would be a voters' bill of rights, the most major feature of which would be instant runoff elections for all public office. THAT would allow some third party to rise up and supplant the dems in a natural manner. At present that's generally impossible since voting for a third party candidate is almost always indistinguishable from voting for your least favorite candidate.

Finn's concern,

I am concerned with what seems to be a general dumbing down in America,

and you just happen along to illustrate his point, Gunga.

Mind you there is the numeric display/ladder/graph hybrid which combines some of the visual elements of both analog and digital, but does so using an LCD or equivalent in combination with digital support circuitry, thus no actual analog. As discussed analog is dying as the major metering manufacturers will attest. Even the venerable wattmeter is mostly digital now.

Anybody who thinks the dumbing down process is accidental or anything like that needs to read and/or watch some of this stuff about kids' brains being annihilated by the garbage which has replaced the three Rs in our government schools these days...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr1qee-bTZI