Technology is Turning Us Into Zombies

[baltoro]

[anunitu]

can't argue with that Baloro..wonder what happens when we run out of juice for all our gadgets?

[zemtex]

Thats the thing, we never were smarter than our phones, sure we knew how to handle the interface, "pick up phone, push a few buttons" and we will always learn how to use an interface. The end user will never have all the problems, it is the education system that will have all the problems. They have to keep splitting up each education field into several sub layers in order to keep everything manageable.

We never were smarter than anything, not even in the 40's were people smarter than anything. They had complex technology back then that the general public had no idea what was about. We will always have many fields that will be difficult to understand for most people.

I might add that it is more of a question of you becoming older than it is "turning into zombies". The first question should be "are you getting older", not "are we turning into zombies".  :bdg Evolution will always surprise us, is that strange, are we not prepared for a change.

However I agree that the world is becoming very zombie-like. Everyone carries this little thing, mobile phone and pushing buttons. Watch an old movie like James Bond from the 70's, you get a feeling what it was like when people were "normal" or "normal" in a different generation people. :bg

[hutch--]

I hate gadgets, the last land line phone I had to replace was replaced with a standard Telstra handset with buttons on it and no other crap. It doesn't need a power pack and keeps working if there is a power outage. i would have hunted for a true dialup phone if they still made them.   :P

[zemtex]

Too many gadgets is a plague. Gadgets is the result of our economical system, we probably don't need half of the gadgets they produce.