technology is a mixed blessing for instance I grew up in a time before the high speed dental drill and painless dentistry and as a result of my dentist once slapping me for complaining when I was nine I let my teeth go for years...something I truly regret now that even a root canal is fairly painless......the technology that has advanced medicine is truly wonderful.......
but kids are being taught how to press the right buttons to make things work but have no understanding of what it is they're making work. The advent of the virtual world is keeping people out of the real world.....I too remember a time when we left the house in the morning and came back in for dinner and no one panicked.....and when we read a lot and when a movie or a favorite tv show was a real treat......when kids sporting events brought out the whole community......I also remember when the live show was a big part of peoples lives and everyone went to see a band....now they can get it on mtv, hbo, dvd, or just stream it on their computers and it has hurt attendance....I could never make a decent living as a club performer doing rock now as I did before.....
Whoever thought of and implemented the automated answering systems and decided to leave off the option to talk to a human needs to have a new level of hell designed just for them... at least two levels lower than Hitler......
Having said all that.....the new technologies can be life enriching or you can hang out in forums and surf for porn and goofy **** and waste your valuable time.....hmmmm...wait a minute.......how about a common sense and discipline chip? Sign me up.......
You've hit the nail on the head! I also hate automated answering systems their just so impersonal! The sound of a human voice brings reassurance that your query will be dealt with properly!
It is annoying to listen to an Asian trying to say "Yeah, I got time for you and your f*#king problems......"
going back to what you said before...
Bi-Polar Bear wrote:
but kids are being taught how to press the right buttons to make things work but have no understanding of what it is they're making work.
Can you expand on this for me please, any products in particular?
I know what you mean though kids are being bombarded with all kinds of technologies of which they have no understanding of how it works. I have a young brother and I bought him a 'how things work' kit which contains electricial circuits, leds, batteries, sensors etc.. We have discussions about different products and then we make a simple circuit to show how it works.
One thing which occurs to me is automobiles. When i take my jeep in for an oil change, i drive it onto the lift, and drive it off when they're done, because i cannot stand the sound of screaming gears when some clueless high school kid tries to drive a stick. Driver's education programs at one time started you off on a standard transmission, and you didn't get to drive the automatic until you had mastered the stick.
We attempted to employ kids from high school and community college programs once, but when you get someone who doesn't know what a nut driver is, is mystified by the term "stripping wire," and who would be dangerous with a power tool in their hands, you tend to look elsewhere. I wonder what they do teach them in "industrial education" programs if they can't even identify and use simple tools.
Phoenix32890 wrote:Quote:The sound of a human voice brings reassurance that your query will be dealt with properly!
Nat23 - Aha! But with one caveat. Many of the computer companies have outsourced their tech suppport to India. To a Luddite, it is frustrating enough when he is attempting to work with someone to "fix" something on his computer. On top of that anxiety, (owmygawd, I have made a mess of this whole computer 
) when you can barely understand the tech's accent, it becomes quite a trauma!
Surprising you say that !
