Thursday, November 04, 2010

Automated Stupidity

Lord Kadizzle just talked with his sister Suzie in West Virginia. She remarked what a waste of time computers can be. Kadizzle got a lecture from The Commander and his daughter last night on the wasted time spent on the google. It is wonderful. People used to have to work so hard to get stupid and waste time. Now, we have a magic machine than draws you in and gives you the illusion you have done something. If you really get good at it you can also waste money. The gadget that was supposed to bring a new round of productivity to the universe has done more to waste peoples time than any invention since television. The recent elections have shown that the spread of information has no effect on people getting smarter. Just like television you can watch the history channel, or learn something on the science channel, but that is no fun, lets watch Fox, and football. You might as well give a calculator to a tribesman in the middle of the Amazon. Kadizzle used to work for a company that was obsessed with how much money they were going to save by spending millions on a computer system. The vice president of operations was a smart man and always challenged the computer nerds to walk him over and show him where the saved money was stored. Indeed computers do save time. With the time you save you can go to Facebook and spend an hour finding out who burped today or watch a video of your friend waiting for the bus. It is just wonderful. Once the Chinese get enough computers we will be able to compete with them again. Like us they will not have time to build flat screens and sell them to another country on credit.

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