[TUHS] Re: "9 skills our grandkids won't have" - Is this a TUHS topic?

On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 11:14:20PM +1000, steve jenkin wrote: [...] Speaking any foreign language at all without help of a machine. Perhaps also being unable to formulate one's own judgements based on archive contained in one's own head, while offline, i.e. without asking other people/bots what to think. Being offline i.e. without constant buzz of b-s-hit coming in - for a long time (define what "long" actually means - minutes, days?) and not getting psychologically crippled as a result. Come to think about it, for them it is like sensory deprivation is for us. The difference will be, perhaps, that todays adult can undergo s.d. for a while and return to normal, while I can imagine for future adult, such a cutoff (no sensory deprivation, just internet deprivation) might result in effects similar to post traumatic disorders (and similarly long lasting). Ability to turn a computer off/on. Ability to understand importance of having the switch in devices. Handwriting. Ability to perform multiplication & division of long numbers on paper, flawlessly. Already lost to youngsters, from what I hear. Learn to use device by reading paper manual, and only this. Assuming paper manual is any good for the purpose, not just a bunch of slogans. Understand minutiae of older technology, limiting their understanding of our ways and times. So far, the gap seems to would be much bigger than between us and, say, Homo ergaster. Perhaps the gap will be more like between us and H. australopitecus. But paradoxically, understanding of the world, I expect to be bigger nowadays than in a future. Even today, how many people could explain why there is a light after switching the light on? I recall reading about some movie, whose fans were unable to understand why a protagonist took film (celuloid) to some "red room". They suggested it was for making photos sharper. Now imagine what would they say after watching Antonioni's "Blow up" where photography making is a central part of a plot. I am not sure - maybe I am taking it too seriously and I perceive most of posters here as tongue in cheek. But I keep imagining that one day some guy writes "ls -axl" and his head will be stuck on pike, because some cretine would claim his cow's milk turned black. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_rola@bigfoot.com **