Easier and lazier are not the same thing. Throwing sticks may make the job of killing an animal easier (don't have to get as close to the animal) but you still need to exert effort, it's just different effort.
Has the Human race become lazy
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Good question...
It’s a shame that he’s on holiday at the moment, it would be interesting to hear his comments.
I suppose he is reasonably fit & healthy for his age... but he puts that down to hard work & working outside for a majority of his life.We agree to disagree on a lot of things, but obviously he won’t see many more years of development.
What views do our elders have on life as a whole regarding technology of today.
We have out iPads, but he only uses it really for news & recreational purposes.
The Facebook side of things, although in his name is controlled by me.
NB: He used to be able to rip a car apart....just don’t ask him to tune in a TV though.
(Rocket science)
What’s that saying... Work smarter, not harder.
Personally... I can’t gel with this electric car monopoly, & I don’t want to get involved in the environmental issues.
But... will it pull a caravan, but more importantly. How far.
NB: When the ‘older’ cars did break down... at least you had a good chance of repairing them.yourself.
My last job, the technology we used & being developed, actually had a dramatic impact on the job.
Not for the better either...the process was made about 25% longer due to the added technology.
No doubt, that would be minimised over time.
It was a manual job, but technology was a thinly veiled ‘Big brother’ for people far, far away.
( But you try telling them, that more could be achieved without so much interference)
This was within in the medical service too.
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It's far less effort than persistence hunting. Not just different effort.
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In someways yes.
Simply don't understand why customers that don't park in our store's car park, then push a full trolley to another car park and leave it there. We sometimes don't have the staff to go around the 3-4 car parks in the area to collect them. As the management prefer to fill shelves and serve customers. If they can push a full trolley for 3 mins, they can push an empty one to the store. If they can't do this, why can't they park in our car park FFS?
Simply don't understand why customers that don't park in our store's car park, then push a full trolley to another car park and leave it there. We sometimes don't have the staff to go around the 3-4 car parks in the area to collect them. As the management prefer to fill shelves and serve customers. If they can push a full trolley for 3 mins, they can push an empty one to the store. If they can't do this, why can't they park in our car park FFS?
Why can’t you push it there for them... then you can bring the trolley back with you.
( But keep the £1)
Was it 'The Machine Stops'? (THE MACHINE STOPS ... E.M. Forster (visbox.com), The Machine Stops - Wikipedia). Fantastic story which I've read a few times. Dates back to 1909.
Yes and no.
It's all down to the individual o moderate what technology does for them. The default mode of most people is laziness though, if there's a shortcut then the shortcut is the preferred choice if it means and easy ride for the average person. Case in point pretty much anything. Double case in point the same people are often the first to publicly moan when businesses do the same resulting in a poorer quality product or a small after sales issue etc.
Otherwise though technology has made those who can think for themselves a lot smarter. Never before has there been a time where globally the enthusiastic average person (most of us really) has been able to keep upt o date with the latest happenings around the world, be clued up on science and medicine at the touch of a virtual button on a smartphone or chat with a delivery drivers at their front door when they are on holiday somewhere else on the planet.
So on the whole, we are smarter and more efficient from tech, just a small and loud part of populations around the world choose the easy life by being potatoes.
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I think the end game is that we will all not work and all time will be used for recreational activities. Child births will more than likely go through the roof and will be capped and as all manufacturing will be done by robots everyone will want for nothing.
Although having a teenage daughter myself I can see clearly the effects of mobile phones. She is social in the internet sense but not like how I was actually going out the house or having friends round playing N64.
Although having a teenage daughter myself I can see clearly the effects of mobile phones. She is social in the internet sense but not like how I was actually going out the house or having friends round playing N64.
Re birth rate: Not far off that now... we aren’t needed for conception.
Just go online... enter your spec & it’s delivered for you.
Miss the pub, standing around & telling a silly joke...have a laugh.
Not the same, when somebody just shows you it on their phone... where’s the fun in cocking it up.
Agreed... it has become a Social disease.
( Hands up... I’m not squeaky clean, but not when I’m socialising)
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My dad was one of those that would go down the pub on a Saturday and always took me with him. Was a place for blokes to hang out and moan about their wives and chinwag but was also great to meet people and get new contacts. I would either be playing darts or playing pool with the other kids with a bag of pork scratchings.
I am not sure if that even exists now. As I never partake in going to the pub unless I am going for a lunch with family or friends.
Many GCSE French classes were skipped between 4 of us in them days, jumping over the school wall to go round one of our houses to play Big Head mode on Goldeneye 64 or Mario Kart or Beetle Adventure Racing
Good times, oui!
Technology, whilst a life enhancing area, has resulted in younger kids being unable to retain information, compared to my generation. Actually had a student say "why do I need to remember this when I can just google it" multiple nods of agreement too from other students.
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lol right. Just like the generation before yours lost the knack to mine coal.
I've worked for over 15 years in a university, I see first hand the students abilities to retain information, has declined.
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That's awfully worrying. Is retaining information a key outcome of going to University?
In academia, if you struggle to retain basic information, then yes it's an issue.
It’s certainly had an impact on language...sometimes when I get a message , I have to use good old Google to decipher it.
Where’s Alan Turing etc when you need him.
Re University: My old place of work, looked on having a Degree as the ‘ability to retain information’.
Hence, our head of HR (or its equivalent today) had a Degree in Zoology.
Well... there was some animals employed there.
(We wasn’t all monkeys)
Where’s Alan Turing etc when you need him.
Re University: My old place of work, looked on having a Degree as the ‘ability to retain information’.
Hence, our head of HR (or its equivalent today) had a Degree in Zoology.
Well... there was some animals employed there.
(We wasn’t all monkeys)
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