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 sit 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. When on ipods we become distracted and we stop paying attention to anything that is around us we wont even be able to hear a car that is not stopping for you as you cross the street. I’ve seen people walking together, however both of them are listening to music so neither of them are talking to each other. We loss social lives to facebook because communicating to people when not in person is so much easier to do. Facebook and texts lack emotion ALL CAPS COULD MEAN YELLING or excitement and can be interpreted as either one. Words can be snooty or mean and angry, unintentionally, but interpreted as such by they reader. We no longer communicate in person or we are loosing the ability, the knowledge, of how to interact and respond with the people and things around us. People have 500+ friends on facebook or twitter and it is guaranteed that only +/- 40 of them are actual friends at one point in that person life. The age of information, communication and learning technology is an age that wipes out previous information that people should know.
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