Skills that are needed to take care of ourselves are diminishing. Reliance on high-tech gadgets allow people to get the answer without the necessary skills needed to get it. GPS, medical monitors and cell phones all contribute to the important skills diminishing.
First, with GPS devices we no longer need to learn how to navigate or read a map. All you need is the address or coordinates for where you want to go and the GPS can give you directions and in some cases even navigate you, turn to turn. I see navigation skills diminishing even in the military. Prior to my deployment in 2005 we used maps and compasses to navigate for each mission. During the deployment the FBCB2 “Blue Force Tracker” used along with the maps on occasion to aid its use. When I deployed again in 2009 to conduct convoy security operations the FBCB2 was the primary means of navigation, so much so that our mission would be …show more content…
We rely upon the computer so much that when it crashes or power goes out, work stops. Using the Army SLC course of example, without the ability to use a computer I would not have received any information for the course. Most information for our day-to-day lives revolves around the computer. We complete task from banking to testing and even sending important messages all on the computer. In my civilian life I am a police officer assigned to the Crime Analysis Unit in my department. I depend on my computer to complete 90% of my daily task. Recently my computer crashed and I lost all my information stored on it. For the entire day it took to get a replacement computer set up, I could not complete any of my work. Everything I once learned to do without the aid of my computer I forgot how to do, like “date and time” probabilities and graphing “crime hot spots”. I relied upon the computer with excel and graphing overlays so much that I could no longer complete my assignments without
First, with GPS devices we no longer need to learn how to navigate or read a map. All you need is the address or coordinates for where you want to go and the GPS can give you directions and in some cases even navigate you, turn to turn. I see navigation skills diminishing even in the military. Prior to my deployment in 2005 we used maps and compasses to navigate for each mission. During the deployment the FBCB2 “Blue Force Tracker” used along with the maps on occasion to aid its use. When I deployed again in 2009 to conduct convoy security operations the FBCB2 was the primary means of navigation, so much so that our mission would be …show more content…
We rely upon the computer so much that when it crashes or power goes out, work stops. Using the Army SLC course of example, without the ability to use a computer I would not have received any information for the course. Most information for our day-to-day lives revolves around the computer. We complete task from banking to testing and even sending important messages all on the computer. In my civilian life I am a police officer assigned to the Crime Analysis Unit in my department. I depend on my computer to complete 90% of my daily task. Recently my computer crashed and I lost all my information stored on it. For the entire day it took to get a replacement computer set up, I could not complete any of my work. Everything I once learned to do without the aid of my computer I forgot how to do, like “date and time” probabilities and graphing “crime hot spots”. I relied upon the computer with excel and graphing overlays so much that I could no longer complete my assignments without