On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 12:36 AM jim bell <[1]jdb10987@yahoo.com>
   wrote:

   I once heard a statement, something like:
   "Civilization advances by the number of important things you can do
   without thinking about them".
   Found it:   Alfred North Whitehead:
   [2]https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead#:~:text=Civiliz
   ation%20advances%20by%20extending%20the,be%20made%20at%20decisive%20mom
   ents.
   "It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by
   eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate
   the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the
   case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important
   operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations
   of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly
   limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at
   decisive moments."
   YOUR proposed solution amounts to DECREASING the number of important
   things you can do without thinking about them.
   Can you see how that's backsliding?

   No, I do not see it, assuming we still live in democratic societies,
   where people have the freedom[1]
   to choose from.
   Let me explain it a bit. I am almost online for 40 years now, been here
   and there and done this
   and that online.  What I see is an IV. virtual Reich, where people are
   addicted by those IMHO
   stupid smartphones, doing things they really do not need for daily live
   and and that there moves
   can be globally controlled by third parties. I do not want to see
   postal stamps, letters and postcards
   or banknotes disappear, let alone the phone booths we had ...
   IMHO, what politicians could not accomplish in analog modus, they will
   accomplish it digitally,
   with the help of big tech companies.
   [1] Back to the roots with a Raspberry Pi and UUCP (for Usenet and
   email) with its additional
   *own static IPv6, free of charge* .
   Regards
   Stefan

References

   1. mailto:jdb10987@yahoo.com
   2. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead#:~:text=Civilization advances by extending the,be made at decisive moments.