I wonder if there was this kind of hysteria in Victorian times when the stereoscope was invented?
Posted on 05/27/2015 4:55:39 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
My big eureka was visiting amusement parks with my teenage kids. Mommies are parking toddlers nearly big enough for cub scouts in giant strollers, so the kids can remained glued to a screen, ignoring all the amazing stuff going on all around them.
Why is mommy doing that? So her kid doesn’t harass her, while she surfs the web and facebooks on her own smart phone.
“The younger GPS generation was lost when their screens went dark. Their brains had been wired from early childhood to be led and directed from point to point by computer-generated voices and pixel arrows. By the time the grid went down most people were incapable of learning to navigate by map and compass, and anyway, almost nobody had them. I was the rare exception, already equipped with a Silva Ranger compass, my Appalachian Trail topo maps, guide books, and my previous summers’ experience hiking the Trail.
“As soon as the power was lost, there were no more computer-generated dropdown menus full of helpful suggestions to the traveler. No Google, no Bing, no search engines at all. The screen addicts couldn’t light a fire with an entire pack of matches: I’d seen them wasting match after match in the rain. The concept of dry kindling wood had escaped their educations entirely. After their matches and butane lighters were used up during the first winter, they froze to death, providing gear, clothing, and eventually the meat from their very bodies to the more ruthless and better prepared. I’d seen their campsites, and I’d seen their bones. I’d worn their boots.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3058882/posts
http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2013/08/26/bracken-alas-brave-new-babylon/
“Free heroin in kiosks would be no more dangerous to society.”
Well, except that heroin is actually a deadly drug that will kill you, and VR is just some pictures you are looking at through a headset. Besides that, yeah exactly as dangerous...
70W, Claysville xit
R then left 40W
3-4 mi, R on Lake
etc
I rebelled against the gps
When I started driving in the boonies to gas wells ... I NEEDED gps
So I got one
I won't shut down, but GPS is SO helpful
I'm happy enough without it.
VR
I'm happy enough without it.
VR
Read 23 and 36. It WILL kill people. Many people. More than heroin does.
We learned navigation in the natural way first, while our brain architecture was growing and expanding in childhood. We took the bus and even got a transfer, and learned to interpret bus sign maps and schedules, etc. We “saw” the entire city by its main avenues, North from South, in our heads.
Today, kids totally skip all of that, and instead learn that a nice female voice tells them when to turn, and how far it is. They don’t need to waste mental energy on learning navigation as we did, in the real world, with our minds.
A child has to crawl-walk-run etc, in order, for proper development. If you give an infant “virtual wings” and they skip walking and crawling and running and instead go directly to “flying” by age three, what happens? We will find out, especially if and when the power goes out and stays out. They might be real-world cripples, unable to ever map a city with their minds, having skipped that step in childhood.
It’s a big experiment.
I wonder if there was this kind of hysteria in Victorian times when the stereoscope was invented?
I’ve heard it preached as a washing machine cycle ... if you skip a step ... your clothes are not clean
You ever see the movie surrogates with Bruce Willis?
People wouldn’t even leave their homes anymore.
Maybe i should open a colostomy bag/catheter installation service in the near future so they don’t all wallow in their own filth....
nope
And I don't think that's such a bad thing.
As has been said, "Go Wolverines."
;-)
I think real Americans are a remarkable breed of human. We'll rise to our best when the manure hits the fan.
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