Fine Motor Skills....

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Will we be losing fine motor skills in computerized nations?

If typing, texting, voice to text eliminates hand writing...

How much of fine motor skills will be gone...

crocheting, tatting, knitting, sewing...these are gone becoming extinct...

car repair, home repair, even lawn care...depending on your income more are being outsourced.


just a contemplation.... oh video gaming, that will save us...
 
wil said:
oh video gaming, that will save us...
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I hope that my future dentists will have done more to keep up their fine motor skills than just video games. Maybe some virtual reality root canals or something....
 
tis a question how long board games will be around...fewer game players today... bridge and pinochle clubs ain't like they used to be...
 
Let the young ones ensure the old greys that the end of times is not here yet.
The fine motor skills I needed to build my PC, those are tiny parts you know.
And extinct? I think not! I sew, I have an medieval outfit I made myself. My girl is knitting a sweater now, it's green. We're building a vegetable garden at a community lot, just today her grandpa was teaching me some carpentry so I can make some garden beds. Humans don't need to chase prey or run from predators, so instead we jog in the park.
So sit back down and I'll get you another blanket.

(No, boardgames are on the comeback. Did you celebrate tabletop day april 11th? I did.)
 
So knitting is extinct = I don't know as many knitters as when I was young?
 
StevePame said:
I hope that my future dentists will have done more to keep up their fine motor skills than just video games. Maybe some virtual reality root canals or something....
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This is sort of what I am getting at...those dexterity skills that are built as children and honed as youth come in valuable later in life... of course we outsource things we don't do ourselves...
 
Has there been any great research to show that children have actually lost fine motor skills, or is it still conjecture at this point? Watching my 5 year old granddaughter on her tablet, it seems to me her dexterity is far greater than mine was at that age.
 
I think clicking on a tablet is different than threading a needle... girls and their samplers? hair art?

oh...and all conjecture...just a thought... I just haven't seen anyone tatting lately...
 
wil said:
now you putting words in my mouth as well?
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Notice the question mark at the end of my post? It indicates that it's a question. Sort of like "is this what you're saying?". I'll try to be more wordy in the future.
 
wil said:
crocheting, tatting, knitting, sewing...these are gone becoming extinct...
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wil said:
Yes I run amongst board gamers and know knitters, but not in the numbers of my youth...
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I know a number of folks who would say handcrafting is having a resurgence....but none that would say it is as prevalent as it was at any time in the past (when it was almost required)
 
Oh come on, you old fuddy duddies. Virtual reality will teach the Doctor and robots will do the rest. Oh yes. At one time we had to chew our leather to make it supple. That process became extinct too! The glass is half full...;)
 
EdgyDolmen said:
Oh come on, you old fuddy duddies. Virtual reality will teach the Doctor and robots will do the rest. Oh yes. At one time we had to chew our leather to make it supple. That process became extinct too! The glass is half full...;)
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No, I absolutely agree, as robots have, robots will take over much of the labor, and the more intricate, the more labor intensive the more likely. And in my day I've watched the slide rule and transit become obsolete...not likely we will see more.

I am just wondering how we will do it when we need to do it.. Side note similar vein....Glasses...how the heck did we live without them? I guess darn good thing most folks didn't live past 50
 
Wil - I guess a pinhole in cardboard for glasses.

Just read (in beta) contact lenses now can monitor your blood pressure, eye pressure, heart rate and much more...blue tooth + wifi notifies monitoring station at med facility 24/7. On skin patches to actively do similar monitoring.

Oh btw, I keep my first two Pickett slide rules in my desk just to remind me - and it does...printing now too small to read, that reminds :)
 
wil said:
.Glasses...how the heck did we live without them? I guess darn good thing most folks didn't live past 50
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In less than 20 years, glasses will be obsolete. Laser surgery is changing that fast.
 
There will always be glasses.... you can't get laser surgery at the dollar store....but I did read about the new lens that will provide better than 20/20 and be good for close and far...
 
I paid $75 for my first calculator, and it didn't do much. You may be right, but the price of laser surgery is coming down. At what rate that will continue is anyone's guess. My current prescription lenses cost about $700, and laser would be about $3000 for me. So it would break even in eventually. Prescriptions change too.
 
Some people are not candidates for Lasik surgery. I happen to be in that category. Unlikely that all vision problems will ever be corrected with surgery. Senthil - when I bought my first 'calculator' it was called an adding machine - An Abacas worked just as well :)
 
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