Is our generation to tech dependent?

[Prysin]

its not so much the reliance as the ignorance of whats behind. Many people use modern technology, but their completely unaware of how it works beside "i push this button and it does this".

Unlike 50 years ago, we are now blinded by the design, we dont see the tool for what it is, namely a tool. But we see it as an object of specific usage.

Take the computer, ask any teenage girl or a adult man/woman in their late 50's. They wont even know what the difference between a harddrive and a cabinet is.

Coin mentioned earlier a long impressive list of things he can do, and you know what coin? Most of that is still taught to youngsters in the boy scouts, but most of us still take it for granted untill were in a situation that calls for it. This is why the stories about people who survived the unimaginable sound so amazing. While infact, all they did was going back to the basics, the fundamental basic of mankind... Sadly, there arent many left who possess those "instincts" as technology has made such knowledge redundant.

To answer the question, i do not believe that our generation is too tech dependent, but far too few people are aware that the technology is simply a tool, and that is DOES indeed have multiple usages. While i disagree that we are dependent of technology, i fully agree that we rely too heavily on it. While poweroutages come and go, disasters cripples the powergrid and war destroys infrastructure, we still manages to stay afloat. In the aftermath of such events we realize how different life is without these luxuries.

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