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Originally Posted by Al Ray  Im a young person and in general cant stand my generation. The real differance between mine and say 5 generations ago is simple. People in general will ony do/think just enough to get by. Technology is simply the few people (compared to the whole population) who have the abbility to build on the knowledge of previous generations. Now because the knowlege that was needed to build the technology is generaly not needed to operate it the knowlege is lost by those who dont care to learn it. look at cars, how many of you can drive stick, and of those that cant why cant you? And to those who can drive stick how many can double clutch? And to those how many know what the pedels do an a model T, or how to adjust the engines timing, using timing controls found on steering wheel no less, while driving? Out of those people, how many know the prooper care and feeding (pun intended) of say a horse or mule, Its endless folks. To put it simply, man grows wiser and yet weaker every day. |
And how many old folks can text quickly? Or use computers effectively? Folks are simply proficient in other areas.
If anything life has gotten more fast paced and more complicated rather than less. Most likely its about on par with before given the human animal hasn't changed and our bandwidth remains largely unchanged.
As far as weaker goes, human physical performance has risen, at least among top atheletes. As a species our survivability increases over time (i.e. stronger rather than weaker). As individuals it depends.