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the luddites never learn

• DonaldFisk 10y ago
  The Luddites were highly skilled workers. If computer systems do most of the thinking, and users don't understand how they work, I'm concerned that people will lose those cognitive skills. We're already seeing this happen with calculators (mental arithmetic) and satellite navigation systems (orienteering/navigation). Driving a car and learning a foreign language might be next. Some, probably most, people will give up, while the rest will pursue the gradually dwindling number of things computers can't do. So it could well be that most people, rather than the new Luddites who will try to keep the old skills alive, might never learn, because they don't need to.