In the good old days

I saw something on a social networking site about can we auto correct humanity and I didn't even watch all the way through, because it's the same old story.  The first cave man said to his wife, "We don't need no new-fangled fire.  The sun was good enough for my daddy and it's plenty good enough for me.  These new people huddling around their fires, isolated in their caves, no one's talking to no one anymore!"

And if we could auto correct?  Can you imagine how screwed up it could be?  Think about all those sites showing how auto correct changed their conversations?  No more cars!  Or was that wars?  Or maybe it was go for wars?

Remember when electricity was still a novelty in out of the way places back in the 1940's?  People were afraid of being electree cuted just cause they couldn't do their business before dark.  And then there were those telly phones!  Golly!  Wimen was setting around talkin' all day and couldn't get nothin done.  It meant no more talkin over the fence while hanging out laundry and dirty clothes just piling up!

But when television came into being, oh my!  Kids quit reading.  Husbands and wives stopped doing anything in bed except watching the tube and couch potatoes were invented just in time for the microwave.

And in spite of all these things, we still have teachers and doctors, scientists and mathematicians.  We still have friends both on and off our computers and phones and tablets.  We still have children and we still make a million choices a day about how to raise them.

 Just like in the olden days, some people will fail and some will not.  Some people will be happy and some will not.  Some people will make good choices and take advantage of the good parts of new inventions while others will not.

We're the same old human beings we always were.