Quote - Are people getting stupider? Or are Microsoft getting nannier? (Is that even a word?)

Not stupider, just becoming common sense ignorant. We are moving to a race of individuals that wants everything done for them without the individual having to think about it. The more we depend on man made technology and think how perfect and infoulable it is because man made it the more and more we lose the ability of using common sense.

I read an article, and I believe it was also on ABC world news, about the new technology going into cars. Things like flashing lamps, bells and horns to tell the driver if he is driving too fast and catching up to the car in front, to tell the driver he/she is drifting into another lane, to tell the driver that the light is red, etc. If people are not paying attention to traffic signs and signals now what make the car manufacturers think they will listen to bells and whistles?

If you're that stupid that you can't pay attention and need flashing lights and audible sounds in the operation of a 2500 pound weapon that can kill you ( 50,000 Americans die per yr in senseless auto related deaths) or others then maybe you shouldn't be driving. To me this does nothing more than build a false sense of security and remove personal responsibility. Why use common sense when you have all those pretty lights and bells doing it for you? And if you are in an accident then you can just say you didn't hear the warnings. It's all rubbish the more  so-called technically advanced we become the more incredibly ignorant we become.

Same can be said about this. Why be aware or educate yourself with basic computer functions, web surfing, virus and other nasties when you can have a software do it for you? Why be responsible? Is this not the teaching of the future? It's not my fault it's somebody else.

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