Post 2 the missing information in the everyday

The author predominantly writes about how we lose touch with natural information and basic instincts people used to have and what people used to do, for example, why travel if the travel channel brings you to a new place without leaving the living room.   He then tells of a time when man could walk outdoors, look up to the sky and determine whether the day will hold rain, storms, snow or some other unpleasant weather or if it is going to be a beautiful day.  We type emails and text messages on our phones so why learn penmanship or cursive. People become less social in person because there are things like facebook.  Like in my post about movie theater etiquette and the people of a generation four years younger than me sitting in a theater watching a movie while video calling, texting, “facebooking,” and talking to each other across the theater all while messing with their phones because god-forbid they turn it off for 2hrs and 14 minutes of their lives.  Technology makes both simple and complicated tasks more easy than they were, but when it does this the human race looses something that is a basic instinct or a piece of common knowledge that everyone should have.  We don’t have to know how to spell any more due to spell check, and phones have the ability to guess at what you want to say before you say it.  SIRI in the iPhone allows people to not even have to type a text, SIRI is your personal stenographer and organizer.  Which way are you going? Probably the only people in the united states that would have to solve this question are frequent backpackers, hikers and military personnel.  GPS, triangulation, turn by turn directions, and compasses in every piece of technology void the use for a paper map and other land navigational skills.  We don’t need to know which way is north because a voice guidance system just tells us when to turn.  This does make it easier to navigate, but it makes the knowledge of how to navigate less and less a part of the collective human necessities.  People get less intelligent and less aware of themselves in the world around them as technology progresses.