Lost tribe of Westwood

HAVE COMPUTERS MADE US SMARTER?

We live in a mordern new world. Everything is at our fingertip via the internet and the computer advancment. What is more interesting is that the quality of education has gone down in the U.S. The "I want it now" generation has ground to a stop. Instead of everything getting better, we are worse off then before. The economy is in the trash and fewer jobs are available. There is no doubt that computers have made information available to us more quickly.
When I was in college, learning about computers was alot different. We learned how to create program using diagrams and punchcard. Then the cards were put into a computer the size of a 44ft Semi truck and trailer. Today a computer the size of a wrist watch can do much more at a faster speed. Advances in computers, medicine and technology have made the machine smarter and the operator lacking the ability to use this information. Computers are still, GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT. Many young people know how to conquer the word in video games, text at the speed of light, talk on phones the size of an earing, but when the power goes out they are as dumb as dirt. Clerks in stores have problems figuring out change and taxes when the power goes out. Our kids were told in school that math wasn't important because this was now the calculator generation. If you told a student to go to the library and do a research project without the help of a computer, they can't get past the dewy decimal system. They look to quick answer sites like Wikipedia and are content that the site is 100% correct 100% of the time. There is so much knowledge available now on the internet that a person can argue pro and con on any subject. Cut and paste and the article or information has a completly different meaning. Rational judgement has been thrown out the window and replaced with speed. It's not the computer fault, but the operators. Faster is not always better.