No, AlphaF. I think the world is getting better and people are getting smarter thanks to technology.

1. Knowledge is available for everyone and it is free.

2. Human relations change of course but not necessarily to something better or worse as such. For instance these days you don´t have to communicate with those in your village if you don´t want to but you can easily find people with the same thoughts whereever they are.

3. We are free from many routine tasks that used to eat our time before. More chances for meditation.

I paid attention to an advertisement in a bus stop roof the other day. It was a mobile phone operator and the text was as follows:

A: Are you in the supermarket?

B: I came out already.

A: Bring some almonds.

B: But I am out already, in the parking field.

A: They are finished.

B: Ok.

In the old days the poor man could have come home without the almonds and that´s it. But now when we are free to communicate all the time it also adds to our demands. Everything has to be perfect. Who would like to look at a written document which is full of misspellings or whose composition is no good? It would look very rude in the time of word processing. I guess the same increased demands apply to many fields of life.

Maybe the amount of stress is an invariant.

I tend to agree with Einstein, the more humans get wrapped up with technologie the more impersonal they become.  Lack of respect by answering their mobiles in public places, hidding behind the pseudo anonymity that the internet provides, the loss of basic resourcefullness and the dependancie to the technologies in question.  It breeds a generation of "idiots" who litteraly become comatose or neurotic when they do not have access to their "electronic toys".

As an example, when there is a power failure the first thing out a child´s mouth is "there´s nothing to do..."  Well, when I was young it was called playing outside and using your imagination, a stick became a sword, the dog was a ferocious dragon and the tree was an enchanted forest.

Oh stumpy, don´t start with this.

Let me guess, your parents were ok with you sitting in from of the television for more then 4 hours after school?  You never heard them say go play outside?  So you let your children play their video games all day and all night and chat and tweet and msg and the only time they see the outside world is when they log on to SimCity?

No not necessarily. But for children, just like us adults, Internet and games mean freedom, unlimited possibilities. Otherwise the hours of their days are quite controlled these days. The chances for free play are not the same in urban societies as they were in our childhood.

I believe children´s choices are not so bad always. Time is just different. Instead of sticks and cones they choose from their environment those things which are relevant for their future.

The song called "Everything is getting worse" always gathers plenty of admirers. It almost sounds like the absolute truth. I just wanted to point out in many respects we have it better or at least not any worse.

Just as I am pointing out that when people go 5 minutes without a WiFi connection to tweet, msg, fb or any of the multitude of other social techno apps out there people become neurotic, they cannot go 5 minutes without their gadgets.  I should know I work in and with technical gadgets but that is what they are, gadgets, you won´t die if you do not use them. 

I have seen people in cafes, all sitting around texting, no one was speaking to each other at the table just texting, what is the point of going out with friends when you are going to sit around and text?  Defeats the porpouse of going out and meeting up with friends, they could have just stayed home and facetimed each other.