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So there are parents who moderate their kids' use and you complain about it?
Tech wizzes as do low tech parenting?
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Pinga
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You know some people get a deck of cards and play go fish, and that is the most they do with it....others learn to play bridge.
Some people have computers ......figure it out. We're human, there are differences.
Most people have indoor plumbing, but, if push comes to shove, can s**t in the woods.
The world didn't stay back , people want things different, sometimes it will be better for some, but, most people will wittle away their hours, having silly discussions into the wee hours of the morning.
Too bad wine wasn't involved more often in those dialogues.
Some people have computers ......figure it out. We're human, there are differences.
Most people have indoor plumbing, but, if push comes to shove, can s**t in the woods.
The world didn't stay back , people want things different, sometimes it will be better for some, but, most people will wittle away their hours, having silly discussions into the wee hours of the morning.
Too bad wine wasn't involved more often in those dialogues.
Hey, I am just raising the existential concerns that are out there. They are uncomfortable to consider - I realize. But we have to. Not live in fear of it but consider that it is possible. We may just find ourselves (or our grandchildrens' generation) in the next century having to make due without GPS and other conveniences - and be back to horses and rubbing sticks together - if our own inventions go wrong and there are no paper books to relearn what was lost - because we got too ahead of ourselves ( read the bbc and wsj articles before you nit pick me please) and people won't know how! They'll be dumbfounded. That's what I worry about for them. That's not nice - to leave them vulnerable - without 'low tech' wits and ingenuity, is it? And that is happening, the more reliant people are taught to be - in classrooms, in the world - it's true. Read the articles, do more research for yourselves. Jobs knew this, I am certain.
And @ChemGal. Not complaining. Pointing out the irony/ hypocrisy and their kids' advantage because - they will be smarter if they are not 100% tech reliant.
And @ChemGal. Not complaining. Pointing out the irony/ hypocrisy and their kids' advantage because - they will be smarter if they are not 100% tech reliant.
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Pinga
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Kimmio, your presumption is that I have not read the articles or watched shows or reviewed studies. Anyone can google a set of key words. Dang, that is use of the technology that you are so afraid of.
Maybe, next time, walk down to the library, get out a few books ---oh wait, that would rely on the acceptance of the technical acceptance of the printing press, and the ability to look up a book on the online search.
Ultimately, it is up to each individual to see their reliance on technology, just as it is the food industry.
We buy food from farmers. Some people choose to learn how to grow food.
We buy food from butchers. Some people choose to learn how to do their own hunting and slaughter.
Maybe, next time, walk down to the library, get out a few books ---oh wait, that would rely on the acceptance of the technical acceptance of the printing press, and the ability to look up a book on the online search.
Ultimately, it is up to each individual to see their reliance on technology, just as it is the food industry.
We buy food from farmers. Some people choose to learn how to grow food.
We buy food from butchers. Some people choose to learn how to do their own hunting and slaughter.
I actually wasn't presuming anything about you Pinga. I started this thread because it is my strong opinion that the tech giants understand the existential risks of depending too much on technology more than the consumers they are selling to and the society that has been transformed to be fully dependent on it. Because they are generally a lot smarter than their customers - they are several steps ahead of most of their customers. It is my belief that they did not want to be role models for parents putting limits on tech use or iPads would not be appearing in kindergartens all over the world - Jobs' own kids had not seen the iPad that article mentions (they're older now they probably have - but at that time he kept it from them). Just a heads up for us all. That's it. It wasn't about you, Pinga.
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"yer living in an amusement ride created by other people that you can't not ride -- so be excellent to each other"
--Jesus
"what is this 'water' you speak of?! you're mad"
--a fish, when presented with what it was born in and has been living in all its life
"Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog."
--Marshall McLuhan
"i'll never smoke a bush again"
--Moses, acid-head