# This New Technology Age is making us lazy, complacent and stupid... **URL:** \ **Category:** What is on Your Mind?\ **Created:** [January 24, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/this-new-technology-age-is-making-us-lazy-complacent-and-stupid/281331 "2011-01-24T23:41:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Scientist](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/scientist/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Scientist](https://community.unix.com/u/Scientist)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/this-new-technology-age-is-making-us-lazy-complacent-and-stupid/281331/1 "2011-01-24T23:41:38Z")
p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } I'm seeing that most of humanity's technological advancement is essentially exclusively in the areas of just "progressively miniaturizing basic IC Chip technologies, to tinier and tinier�... Nothing else is new or newer any more.. It seems our Species is sort of �stuck in the muck� in a growing dependency upon tiny electronics doing all our thinking for us, and doing all our human communication and human contact for us too.. Years ago I used to do research on the mind, to determine the mind's connections and abilities, on my own, given that there weren't any teachers in pioneering the mind.. just a few ancient obsolete manuscripts, and a lot of hearsay fantasies, and fallacies, and some strange �schools of thought�... I found a few new items that should be exploited to make living on this planet more comfortable, safer, and rewarding.. but I just can't generate any honest interest in anything new.. the miniaturization of electronics seems to be taking the whole stage these days... Now a days, electronics does most of our basic thinking.. What we used to have to actively think-out, now an electronic device does it ten times faster, and more accurate than we could have.. We have stopped exercising the mind.. If we don't exercise the mind, we don't need it, and soon it will go dormant and non-functional, and when we find we need it, it's dead or asleep... Look at today's Yahoo News blog, seen when you log-out of a Yahoo email account.. �an elderly couple's vehicle's GPS told them to turn now, and they turned, and the vehicle slammed into a building�.. Your alarm clock wakes you in the morning.. It's the only way you know to get up, and get going.. Or some might have someone else wake them.. Someone who had an alarm clock wake them... We're hooked on the alarm clock... we have a wake up �alarm-clock� in the mind.. I stumbled upon it... You simply think deep into the center of your brain.. think to your spirit �wake me at X hour, no option!�, and at that minute suddenly you wake... Many years ago, I installed a �two minute warning system� in my mind.. i programmed it to warn me of dangers on my path, two minute in advance... It worked too well... this one day, I was approaching a red light intersection.. There was a vehicle in each o the two lanes in front of me, and in the across the street lanes too.. I intended to go straight at the green light, I slowed as i approached a spankin' brand ne canary yellow caddy.. i stopped back from the caddy about two car lengths, and peered in my rear view mirror.. There was a two tone Pontiac coming a little too fast a block and a half away.. Something didn't feel right.. I caught a mental premonition flash thought about the back of my car all smashed, so i drove to the center lane, which was against my plan to drive straight asap, because the car ahead was signaling to turn, and would need to wait for several vehicles to cross before it could proceed.. I stopped in the wrong lane, and the bad feeling hit me again.. I rolled down my passenger window, and beeped the horn, and waved to the guy in the caddy.. His window went down.. I said �Your in danger! Forget the light! Make the turn Now!�.. The guy looked at me angrily, and give me the �upyours finger gesture�, and up went his window.. And �WHAMO!� that Pontiac slammed right into the back of the caddy, so hard that it pushed the rear bumper right up to touching the rear tires... The guy looked a lot shocked, probably wondering just how the hell did I know... The light changed, I cut in front of his brand new wreck, and proudly gave him my �upyours finger gesture�... Electronics can't predict that... We needs our minds to do the finer things for us... Point of all this is.. We needs to understand that we need to exercise the mind, or we'll lose it... Electronics is nice'n all, but it doesn't do everything, even though we seem to accept that it does.. And the things it doesn't do, we forgo and forfeit.. Not good!.. The ways we are depending upon electronics is detrimental to our living.. It's down right dangerous... this item needs a lot of research... another obscure example:.. When I go solo hiking in deep woods, I often take midnight walks in the forests, negotiating the game trails by feeling them with my toes.. I take no lights, no weapons.. I rely on my senses only... This one midnight stroll I hears a cougar powerful growl from about 5-meters to my three o'clock.. Instantly I held down the �hot fear bubble� that I felt forming in my stomach area.. I instantly faced the source of the growl, and said respectfully as I could muster, �Walk with me your majesty�, and continued walking... I heard the panther keeping pace with me about two meters to my right.. I stopped when my toe bumped into a rock.. Seemed the path changed.. While I was taping my foot around in trying to determine the whereabouts of the path, the panther leapt in front of my at face level, releasing its attack-growl a couple inches past my face, and it was gone... Electronics can't do that for you... You Do So Need to develop your mind to maximum peak viability.. There are extremely dangerous things in life that need your mind to work for you instantly, or you can die instantly... Something Must be done to break our absolute dependence upon electronics, before humanity has totally lost use of the mind... Humanity needs to adjust its attitude toward electronics, and its attitudes toward the mind, before our Species goes extinct before our time, from shear stupidity...