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I myself am guilty of this. I went to a technical college and had to spend three years doing hours and hours of technical drawing every week. I was pretty good

I myself am guilty of this. I went to a technical college and had to spend three years doing hours and hours of technical drawing every week. I was pretty good at it, but I never got into the craft. In the last two years of high school we switched to CAD using the PCs of the time (286, 386, the 486 was as valuable as the wedding ring handed down from generation to generation). Now, almost 30 years after my days of technical drawing, I must say that I consider those hours spent drawing a terrible waste of time, partly because I did not go on to the career for which technical school was preparing me, and secondly because technology has made pen and paper obsolete and I see no particular ability to carry over from hand and square technical drawing to CAD-assisted design. The latter is an important point to consider now that we are moving from a non-AI world (like 10 years before my time in technical school) to a little-AI world (my first 3 or 4 years of technical school) to an anywhere-AI world.

DeathArrow 4y ago
By this very reason people shouldn't have learned addition and multiplication since numerical calculators were made available. They also absolutely shouldn't have learned to play musical notes since computers can do that. My point is that learning the very basics of every human endeavor make you better prepared for any situation and will give you a better and deeper understanding.
- borroka 4y ago
  This is a common fallacy. If I say that going slow with the car is better than going fast, I am not saying that the optimal speed is 5 mph. In a CAD world, there is no reason to use pen and paper and a drafting machine. If I were to start learning technical drawing, how much time would I spend with the drafting machine? The answer is zero hours: there is no "market" for it (is there anyone who asks "please deliver without using CAD"?), it is not preparatory (as I wrote in another comment, is there anyone who is starting to learn how to play tennis using wooden rackets?), and it takes much longer to do anything with the drafting machine than using CAD. Learning addition and multiplication is preparatory and useful. Being a Luddite is rarely useful.

DeathArrow 4y ago

By this very reason people shouldn't have learned addition and multiplication since numerical calculators were made available. They also absolutely shouldn't have learned to play musical notes since computers can do that. My point is that learning the very basics of every human endeavor make you better prepared for any situation and will give you a better and deeper understanding.

borroka 4y ago
This is a common fallacy. If I say that going slow with the car is better than going fast, I am not saying that the optimal speed is 5 mph. In a CAD world, there is no reason to use pen and paper and a drafting machine. If I were to start learning technical drawing, how much time would I spend with the drafting machine? The answer is zero hours: there is no "market" for it (is there anyone who asks "please deliver without using CAD"?), it is not preparatory (as I wrote in another comment, is there anyone who is starting to learn how to play tennis using wooden rackets?), and it takes much longer to do anything with the drafting machine than using CAD. Learning addition and multiplication is preparatory and useful. Being a Luddite is rarely useful.