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Re:Why isn’t new technology making us more productive? by tshaddox on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @01:44AM (#31501006)
> And some of those other things are debatable. For instance: I deliberately stopped using GPS for several years, because I realized it was preventing me from building up geographic/navigational knowledge, and instead was just training me to follow instructions blindly and never learn anything

That’s a fine personal choice to make if you value building up geographic knowledge for its own sake, but I don’t really get your point. You could say the same thing about giving up your dishwasher because you value hand washing dishes for its own sake.

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Re:Why isn’t new technology making us more productive? by cft on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @04:17AM (#31501840)
I drove from California to Panama 3 years ago. In Central America Google navigation was not only useless, but sometimes dangerous so we turned it off. We were only asking locals for directions. After a few days we did not experience any inconvenience.
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