That's basically where my handle comes from. Man is a technology-creating creature. The more the technology we create progresses, the fewer people there are that know how to fix it when it breaks. That's the paradox of it - the more we do with it, the more people rely on it, and the harder people are fucked when it shits out on them.
And how many people are forgetting already how to do things for themselves? I have seen science writers speculate how on Earth something as technologically successful as Man could possibly go extinct (with heavy overtones of fart-sniffing, of course). Well, that's easy. Take away their tech support, and the entire species collapses. How do you take away their tech support? I think we're seeing how. Degredation of mental abilities due to lack of selection pressures, crossed with degrading quality of product, a slowdown of REAL technological progress, and, well, I think what is about to happen is just looking at a lemming population crash from the inside where we know what the species in question is thinking.
Here's a story of "precursors" for you - a species rises up from the ashes of an extinct one that was great at technology, but killed off by its own hubris.
That's basically where my handle comes from. Man is a technology-creating creature. The more the technology we create progresses, the fewer people there are that know how to fix it when it breaks. That's the paradox of it - the more we do with it, the more people rely on it, and the harder people are fucked when it shits out on them.
Few people can operate a command line interface as it requires memorization or a list of commands to use.
And how many people are forgetting already how to do things for themselves? I have seen science writers speculate how on Earth something as technologically successful as Man could possibly go extinct (with heavy overtones of fart-sniffing, of course). Well, that's easy. Take away their tech support, and the entire species collapses. How do you take away their tech support? I think we're seeing how. Degredation of mental abilities due to lack of selection pressures, crossed with degrading quality of product, a slowdown of REAL technological progress, and, well, I think what is about to happen is just looking at a lemming population crash from the inside where we know what the species in question is thinking.
Here's a story of "precursors" for you - a species rises up from the ashes of an extinct one that was great at technology, but killed off by its own hubris.