Originally posted by: Aikouka
So, I watched the movie
Idiocracy tonight and it made me wonder... will our world just keep getting dumber?
I mean before, people actually wrote in a real language. Today, people turn papers into their teachers in "Chat Speak", which only has tie-ins to the old stenographer language "Short Hand." Note that they really only share the concept of speeder entry and inability for anyone not learned in the dubious method to decipher the arcane entries.
But there's one thing that may come to our advantage... the savior of earth. Geeks, the geniuses of the world, are actually "cool" now. This may lead to end of the ostracizing of my kind! Women may actually forget the concept of forgoing the geek, just because of his pencil protectors and need for extra-thick lenses. Yet, we have one glaring issue... geeks are being convoluted by the "pretenders." Those that may use a computer... send a couple IMs.. and even be able toe set up a computer by themselves... they think that they are geeks like us! With the dilution of our class of people, we may end up being forced into some unknown stratification of the social aspect.
So, essentially... do you think the Earth is doomed to get dumber?
PS. First person to post "Yes, and this thread just made it worse!" gets a !