- 24 Feb 2017 03:34
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I agree. People rely so much on computers to do even basic calculations.
I have noticed that today's cars are programmed to detect obstacles and traffic jams. Whatever happened to being observant and watching out for our own safety? People cannot even trust their own judgment?
This is making us duller and weaker.
My parents encourage me to do my own math and trust my judgment. And I have logged a lot of hours driving in my 14 years of driving so I am pretty confident and focused behind the wheel. I do not need technology to brake for me or be my eyes. Technology can have hiccups now and then so it is not 100% reliable.
noemon wrote:I think that overall people are getting stupider indeed.
That is I think that if you take people like for like, for example the average intelligence of mathematicians from the past and compare them to mathematicians today, I think that the ones in the past would beat the modern ones and the same would happen if you took past farmers vs modern farmers, I think the ones from the past would be more intelligent than their modern counterparts. The cause for this in my opinion is the simplification of modern learning methods as well as the breakup of the sciences putting an emphasis to the particular rather than the encyclopaedic.
However it should be noted that more people are educated today than they were in the past and so the general average has certainly risen. That would mean that the uneducated of the past were a larger percent than the uneducated of the modern world but is irrelevant when one compares only like for like. I maintain that the people who hold equivalent amounts of education were more intelligent in the past than in the modern times.
I agree. People rely so much on computers to do even basic calculations.
I have noticed that today's cars are programmed to detect obstacles and traffic jams. Whatever happened to being observant and watching out for our own safety? People cannot even trust their own judgment?
This is making us duller and weaker.
My parents encourage me to do my own math and trust my judgment. And I have logged a lot of hours driving in my 14 years of driving so I am pretty confident and focused behind the wheel. I do not need technology to brake for me or be my eyes. Technology can have hiccups now and then so it is not 100% reliable.