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Good article to read here >http://www.converge.org.nz/pirm/nutech.htm

When i was a kid we said that in the future it will be a 'push button' world.  we weren't far from wrong.  Also when i was a kid, we had to think. Calculate and logically reason with situations, I wasn't even allowed to bring a slide rule to school.  Today, all thinking is accomplished by computers, smartphones, tablets and even wrist watches.  I watch the series on TV called 'Revolution' where the world loses all electricity, including batteries and other power storage devices.  In this series, people are forced to return to the basics.  I dread something like this ever happening because many/most young today are unable to work out logic problems, math, read a map, even communicate with each other without some kind of electronic device doing it for them.  I doubt that as in Revolution we could ever revert to the days when we had to do it ourselves.

Most definitely, for some time I worked on a word processor which was first real upgrade from typewriter......(take a letter miss brown ha) you duplicate, change, replace collate it was wonderful no worrying about mistakes with checkers etc. As girls left for various reasons, over a time, they were never replaced..yet we took on more work with a lot less staff! So imagine now!! these computers can do almost everything........with the odd exception......of course x