Yeah I have a lot of "kids these days" moments as well but this time I think that an over-reliance on technology to solve anything for you has permeated not just the young, but everyone. I was listening to a podcast the other day about how chaotic life would be for most people if we were to wake up one day and GPS just didn't work. Most people these days have no idea how to get from one place to the other and would probably just "shut down" as you say, if all of a sudden they needed to use a paper map and remember turns. I am sure you are old enough to remember those frustrating days, but you got it done in the end.
These days I get into an Uber type taxi and even though I presume the person does this for a living and I am going somewhere very common like a huge shopping mall, they turn EXACTLY where the GPS tells them to turn even if it is clearly not the best way of getting there. People have just become automatons because of tech. It's going to get worse before it gets better. Already almost everyone I know immediately goes to AI assistant anytime a question arises and I have to stop them and say something like "let's just talk about it for a bit first" to stop them from preventing anyone from actually thinking for a minute.
Back in my day (lol) we would get told some absolute nonsense by an aunt or uncle and we would spend the next several years just presuming it was true. My story about such a thing is when I was a child my Mom would play guitar and one of her songs was "Yellow Submarine." I lived the next, at least, 10 years of my life thinking that my Mom wrote that song because she told 4-year old me that she did because it probably would have invited a string of question from me if she had told me the truth. I wasn't a Beatles fan so it wasn't until I was in high school that I heard it on a friend's CD player and my mind was just blown.
Haha , wow that is funny about Yellow Submarine. I do know that the Beatle who wrote it was trying to make it sort of a kids song so he kept the lyrics simple and easy to remember. I used to do cable modem installs across several cities back during the flip phone days. I had a map that had one city on one side and the other city on the back. I wore out several of those. When I was a kid we used to get trip tiks from AAA before we headed out on long trips. I use GPS today, but I still usually look at a map ahead of time so I have a general idea of where I am going.
remember the gigantic road atlas books they sold at truck stops? Those had to be updated every year and they were often very high quality paper or if you really splashed out, laminated pages.
I was one of those people that would turn the stereo down when we got close to a turn so i would be able to hear the turn coming up too.
View more