Without computers the world as we know it would fall apart so I wouldn't be too concerned about my job if something happened as would be least of our worries. You say basic skills are being lost... depends what you view as a basic skill. A basic skill to get by these days is being able to use word / excel etc. I wouldn't say they're being lost, more they're just being changed to fit the need to the time
nooooo... a basic skill is sewing, growing vegetables, cooking, being able to make a stool to sit on the ability to skin a rabbit you caught or a deer or a dog to eat whatever... this is why us older folks call the generation coming behind yours snowflakes and vegans and the like utterly privileged.
Well my experience was that there was an insatiable demand from staff in HQ / HR for info which appeared to be required just to give them something to do seriously computers have enabled us to collect & examine huge amounts of data but i wonder how much of that info is really of much value
Wonder same thing sometimes to be fair But the other way. We often get asked shed shed loads of info from wider business half of which I'm never quite sure they really need and just like to be nosey. Once they get it barely ever look at it or do anything with it.
Being computer literate is a basic skill of most of today's population, students, workforce, governments, but it's only a basic skill as long as that skill is in the technology that is most up to date and as long as computers exist for. If computers ceased to exist or be used then of course it's not a basic necessary skill anymore and something more 'primitive' replaces it like being able to kill gut and prepare an animal or nurture crops if society totally collapsed. If edible animals ceased to exist then that would no longer be a basic or necessary skill, unless you went all cannibal.
and i can assure you that a sizeble chunk of our working population is not computer literate they can just about switch them on (though even that is beyond some of them if you swop their PC for a different model) & use the 2 main programmes required for their job. Any problems and they just turn have no idea what to do .
Interesting phrase. It assumes that the world as we know it is the best it can be so far, but that is arguable. It suggest that technological progress is, of itself, an improvement - and that ain't necessarily so. More important than technological improvement is social evolution, and that appears to be going backwards in many ways. The world itself, or rather human society, would not fall apart, it would take a step backwards perhaps but that isn't automatically a bad thing. The world wasn't all disease and dragons in the past.
May i just point out another element of computers in the workplace is that lots of lazy tossers spend half their working day on social media chatting **** about football
There is so much of it real data is hidden. At this point our forecasts are 50% accurate max and we have to manually manipulate using experience.
As far as i am awre dragons were indeed rare but disease was not. Penicillin was discovered after the computer was invented
You just had to look in the right places. I had meningitis when I was a nipper. Penicillin saved my life, a ****ing computer will probably end it when it gets my medication wrong and the medical staff have lost the basic skills to see the error.
Everything we rely on is based on computers though. Banking system would collapse first and then were all up the ****ter!
I did have a long reply to this before realizing that it could get me into trouble at work and I'd probably have to find a real job where I have to learn skills and not speak in American English as this computer tells me to.
You'd like that I bet. Wouldn't be that bad. I'll grow some vegetables in the garden and sell them on my street for sexual favors.
