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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile View Post
The trend right now is to use technology and electronics as a substitute for common sense and intelligence. That's a real problem. How many high school graduates today could solve rudimentary math problems without a calculator, laptop or other gizmo? I'd bet precious few.
Funny you should say that! Even if you have the skills coming out of High School/Uni/College, you can easily lose them very quickly in the workplace.

I work as an analyst at an Investment Bank and deal with numbers constantly. Yet recently during a night out, I was unable to add up the tip on the bill for dinner! Why? Well basically, I hadn't used my head to calculate anything for about 10 months!

Anyway, moral of the story - keep using your brain or you'll lose it!
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