How many human abities get lost due to technology

[bladeParticipant]

I have been doing alot of thinking on this .

I havent water divined in like 28 years .

Just havent had any need to use it . I wonder how many other inner skills have been lost in time .

Bill down below had a dejavui moment . I rember the same on here . I did a thread on over crowded trains once . Only to find a thread the same under neath .

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THE PLANTATION HAS NOW TURNED INTO THE KILLING FIELDS . WOMAN ARE NOW ROLLING CAMBODIAN STYLE .

[KevinStylesParticipant 2580]

Dunno about skills but robots and kiosks will decimate most of minimum wage jobs probably within 10 years. And once they truly get AI figured out, the robots will start climbing the corporate ladder displacing higher skilled/higher waged employees as well.

[Max PowerParticipant 2721]

12,307. Not my own estimation, I googled it.

[GrumpyParticipant]

Max Power wrote:

12,307. Not my own estimation, I googled it.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Good one

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[Anonymous 7]

Math.

Between common core and tech, math by hand is becoming a dinosaur.

[Lone WolfParticipant 205]

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"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem." - Ronald Reagan

[Lone WolfParticipant 205]

@kevinstyles Technology doesn’t take jobs. It creates jobs. Technology doesn’t just appear out of nowhere, it is made by man. The grocery store might have had to lay off employees when they implemented the self-checkout machine, but that’s just what is seen. What isn’t seen is the amount of jobs that were created in the making of the self-checkout machine. Technology isn’t your enemy. Technology is your friend.

"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem." - Ronald Reagan

[Sky-OParticipant 18965]

I hope I never lose any abities.

[NerdTunnelerParticipant]

They dont get lost…The abilities just lie dormant until needed again…

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[AussieParticipant 2509]

I still need to scratch my own b~~~~ when they itch…

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[Anonymous 1]

Has humanity itself been lost?

No longer is technology designed for Man…

Rather, Man is re-designed for the technology.

[BeachBumParticipant 813]

Abilities lost? I would argue that It’s even more deep than lost abilities..

I would say that’s lost is a lot of individual identity, free thinking, problem-solving thinking, independence, and analytical thinking..

See my point? It’s primal in nature but “thinking” is lost in the convenience of technology..

The more technology advances, the less we individuals actually have to think, analyze, problem-solve and conclude on just about anything..

Think I’m wrong? Interact with mellenials and have (try) a theoretical or philosophical conversation with them about ANYTHING that involves them to process, analyze or rationalize on ANYTHING!

So, I would argue that a lot more than just common and important “skills” become lost…

[bladeParticipant]

Spiritual gifts

THE PLANTATION HAS NOW TURNED INTO THE KILLING FIELDS . WOMAN ARE NOW ROLLING CAMBODIAN STYLE .

[iMickey503Participant 12468]

Boy, I hate being the boner of bad news.

See, you guys are seeing this from a mans perspective. Where we have truly lost is in area’s we have been conditioned not to notice.

The FIRST most tragic loss is the loss of women actually. Technology made them what they are today, or rather.. Out in the open.

First would be cooking. Most americans do not know more than a few meals. Cooking use to be a competitive sport. Same with grilling. And Garnishing foods.

Art has to be the other great trade skill lost.

Wonder. Yes, not a skill, but it is going away.

Real world examples of this have to be things that seamstress, and shoe repair.

We have pretty much lost men that know how to work on cars with problems and troubleshooting is all but gone.

You know guys from WWII would tell you that most modern people can’t open a can of beans without a can opener.

Or cook without a pan Its crazy, but we have lost so many old trades, and now only a few people know how to do them.

Metalworking is one and so is wood working.

People will tell you they know how to work with wood. Not without some special tool.

Painting. That one’s almost dead.

Math of course. But reading a tape measure? Almost gone.

Remember when boys use to make go karts out of just pallets and wood and nails? Not anymore.

Its only going to get worse. All of this has to do with the lack of children in men’s lives. That’s the basic BASIC crux of it.

Women do not “Do ” things like men do. Kids just grow up with that computer and never see it as anything else but a television.

I don’t see much point to this. But everything that made life great is going away.

I liked modifying power wheels. Making things with my kids. And the kids of others in the neighborhood.

These days? they made it so dangerous, I would not dare.

I am hoping to go to the Middle east Maybe I can live out a happy life. At least there, men are not looked at funny for wanting to be good men, and role models.

Maybe even japan. Or China.

I would do anything to bring back some of these old trades. But the children are only going to learn them via Youtube. Or forums such as these.

Oh well.

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[KevinStylesParticipant 2580]

Lone Wolf wrote:

@kevinstyles Technology doesn’t take jobs. It creates jobs. Technology doesn’t just appear out of nowhere, it is made by man. The grocery store might have had to lay off employees when they implemented the self-checkout machine, but that’s just what is seen. What isn’t seen is the amount of jobs that were created in the making of the self-checkout machine. Technology isn’t your enemy. Technology is your friend.

That’s not really the point. yes this is kind of true sure. But you’re replacing a minimum wage worker’s job with a higher skill / wage level worker elsewhere in some tech company. ALso it doesn’t make up the deficit. If it takes a team of 50 people to create and build a s~~~ ton of self checkout kiosks for Walmart who puts 10 of those in 1000 of it’s stores, you’ve displaced 10,000 minimum wage workers with 50 skilled higher wage workers in a tech company.

Plus have you seen tech companies? How many non-americans do they import to do the work? A LOT! And the manufacturing of the kiosks doesn’t even happen here in the USA either, it happens over seas in China and the like.

So while your argument has some validity since the tech company needed to hire to create these machines, it’s really not a 1:1 trade off and these minimum wage workers most of them won’t re-train to do something else that’s just a fact. If they’re youngsters doing it for a part time job while they go to school, they will make it out to do something better. But if they’re a mid-life or senior person, that’s their job they won’t or can’t re-train to do something else.

[OldBillParticipant]

BeachBum wrote:

I would say that’s lost is a lot of individual identity, free thinking, problem-solving thinking, independence, and analytical thinking..

See my point? It’s primal in nature but “thinking” is lost in the convenience of technology..

Beautifully put, BB. Technology tends to make people more passive physically and mentally. When you consider how lazy people as a rule can be, giving them more excuses to be lazy can’t help things.

We had a thread here recently about UK removing all analog clocks from the classroom. Apparently, teaching children how to tell time is too hard for both the teachers and the kids.

I read this week about a morbidly obese couple in the UK whose local cab company has put them on a “Do Not Carry” list. He weighs about 500lbs, she weighs about 260lbs, and they’d damaged in the suspension in two vehicles before being told they could no longer be accommodated.

They’d been using cabs four times a day to travel ONE MILE between their sty and the man’s mother’s house.

Do not date. Do not impregnate. Do not co-habitate. Above all, do not marry. Reclaim and never again surrender your personal sovereignty.

[sidecarParticipant 35862]

I may be doxxing myself here, but whatever.

I remember a certain history professor bemoaning that we humans had lost our memories for long epic poems like the Iliad etc. thanks to the printing press making books to remember them for us.

At which point one guy told her, “F~~~ no,” stood up, and started reciting Monty Python and the Holy Grail, start to finish.

Humans aren’t losing their abilities. We’re merely changing priorities.

OldBill wrote:

They’d been using cabs four times a day to travel ONE MILE between their sty and the man’s mother’s house.

Damn. Were I that cab company I would have beefed up one cab just for them and then charged them extra for premium, heavyweight service. Also made each one of them make the trip alone for even more cab fares. Turn them from a liability into a steady source of daily income.

[Anonymous 0]

Anonymous wrote:

Has humanity itself been lost?

No longer is technology designed for Man…

Rather, Man is re-designed for the technology.

Good post! I would like to add that negative artificial self-selection is taking place throughout modern history of mankind. It favors survival and reproduction of most biological specimens (which are existing in confinement of only three activities: domination, reproduction, survival).

Due to this mankind has lost ~ 250 grams of average brain mass since Neanderthal extinction (they have been slaughtered). Not the last part in this s~~~show is taken by technology.

Well, if it is going further (and it is), soon something like ability to write without google devices and “services” would be miracle…

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