The mind affects what interests me most: Software, that is advancing at lightning speed.
When I retired in 2001 there were hundreds of Software companies, most of which did not know what they were doing, now there are four: Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and a newcomer: Google. That made itself rich with a new way of doing Internet Seach: finding all the riches that were out there, waiting to be discovered.
Meanwhile, the people who were benefiting from all these riches were growing stupid, amazingly stupid.
We don't even know how to talk about this problem.
It began with the TV, that turned us into Couch Potatoes. This was the Movies brought into our Living Rooms, for free! This was better than the movies: it showed us how to live and think!
This had never happened before, and we did not know what to do about it. So we did nothing until the TV became a Computer!
This did not take long and we were soon turned into robots, or bots, for short.
This was an amazing development, and once again, we did no know what to make of it. Something else was controlling us, but we did not know what that was.
And did not want to know. This was stupidity on two levels: not knowing, and not wanting to know.
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