Opinions Please.....

Ddaddy said

Having a smart phone and using it appropriately are two different things. The smart phone gives you a great deal of capability that you can use to your benefit. Choosing to live your life inside one will drag you down into oblivion.

With great power comes great responsibility.

Technology isn't evil, how it's used can be.

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I happen to think smartphones are not "great power". I wonder how many millennials know what the phrase "World Book" means? Not many, I bet.

Sorry, but I completely disagree that internet and smart phone technology is a good thing.

Let me give this example. You have a man whose been a mechanic for forty plus years. Suddenly, the whole world has access to what he has spent a lifetime learning. A LIFETIME.

That's a lifetime waking up and going to work every day. For forty plus years. A lifetime of putting up with the boss's bullshit. For forty plus years. A lifetime of pulling other peoples' weight at work, in the REAL world. For forty plus years. A lifetime of probably being paid less then he's worth. For forty plus years.

Suddenly, the internet appears with all the same information he's spent a lifetime of learning over forty plus years available to everyone on the planet. For scott free and without all of the trouble he had to go through to get the experience.

What say you about that? "Too bad"? I bet so. While the forty year experience mechanic has "real" experience, now he has to be nullified buy all of the now "experts" the internet has created overnight....all at his expense.

Nice, huh?