| Everything is so automated humans are now | | | | of a modern Jet Aircraft waiting to take off and |
| relying too much on technology. This is very | | | | then being cleared by the control tower. The |
| dangerous because technology is made by the | | | | co-pilot adds the throttle, clicks in the automatic |
| same humans who are losing their ability to think. | | | | lock auto pilot and the computer will take it from |
| Consider if you will the simplest of technologies; a | | | | there until the last little bit before landing at the |
| cash register. Today over 50% of the retail | | | | final destination 2,000 miles away. |
| employees in this country cannot count back the | | | | Unfortunately, the computer makes and error and |
| change unless the cash register tells them the | | | | one engine goes to full throttle the other to zero, |
| amount and then they simply pick it up and hand | | | | the plane makes a 360 degree circle on the |
| it to you? | | | | threshold of the runway. So, they disengage the |
| Indeed the cash registers are only one example | | | | auto-pilot system and line up again, the co-pilot |
| and folks also complained when the calculators | | | | does the same thing. The pilot slaps his hands and |
| replaced the slide rules. Today think of all the | | | | says; "no we will fly the aircraft manually this |
| technology we have and how people have | | | | time." |
| stopped thinking, hardly anyone remembers phone | | | | The co-pilot is no longer competent to do this, as |
| numbers, names, etc, as they simply look at their | | | | he no longer has the experience you see? Scary |
| phone and the build in PDA type databases that | | | | stuff and this is the point I am making about |
| tells them the answer. | | | | allowing technology to make you stupid, don't let it |
| When technology gets too good people stop | | | | get you, remain fully engaged and do not turn off |
| thinking. Let me give you a more serious example | | | | your mind. |