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Demeter

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34. Then why have competent people, at all?

Fri Jan 17, 2014, 09:24 AM

Jan 2014

There is a point at which technology does more harm than good.

Think NSA. Think of any "advance" that leads to the de-evolution of basic skills; people becoming less competent, more stupid. Think of a dependency on something that goes away due to some interruption of service...and then everyone sitting around, cursing the dark, because they don't know how to cope.

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