Stupid leftard article.
What's the biggest thing to hit media since Gutenberg? ... Duh! You're using it!
For the common man, I think GPS probably did something of a magnificent nature. We all used to carry various maps in the car. It’d take forever if we were driving four-hundred miles to some auction-sale in a building that we’d never been to in our lives. Today, I plug in the coordinates, and get the most direct route, never get lost, and if I need to eat....I can find a fine dining place within sixty seconds.
My wife once demanded an Italian vacation (to drive from Germany down to Italy). This was prior to GPS. We got down to Milan and there was some point in town where we were supposed to turn left. The Italians for some reason simply didn’t make direct interstate-type roads....you got off one....transited over to second interstate a mile or two down the road.
Well...I missed that turn, and we spent almost two hours touring around Milan with a marginal map that simply showed the country of Italy, and not the city of Milan. It was an interesting episode, and I saw a Milan that few ever get to see (nor desire). If I’d had a GPS? It would have redefined the vacation, eliminated the two hours in Milan, and downsized the situation where a frustrated wife was telling me where I went wrong.
Fire wasn't invented. It existed long before man, and became valuable to him when he figured out how to manipulate and control it. Buttons, on the other hand, were invented.
And while THIS invention we're using right now is great and all that, WHEN -- not if, but WHEN -- solar flares or some other natural OR human-generated disaster knocks out satellites and the electric grid ... BUTTONS will still work just fine.
Wrong. Stupid leftard author comes to some stupid leftard conclusions. But the article itself was interesting and provocative. Windflier, GOOD POST! Cnywoody ... take a pill!