New Generations

I have come to a terrible conclusion: The next generations, existing and future, will gradually lose the power to communicate person to person, face to face.

What are they doing on the tube, on the bus, walking along the pavement, shelf browsing in the supermarket? They are on their mobiles, their blackberries, their iPhones or whatever. They are playing games, involved in virtual reality scenarios, they are texting, twittering. face booking and, in fact anything other than engaging with another live human being.

Given that our bodies have evolved over thousands of years to our changed way of lifestyle, from four legged to upright, we no longer have tails, the amount of hair we have has decreased dramatically - at least for most of us -, our appendix is useless - what was it every used for anyway? where will this end? Probably we will lose the power of speech. Certainly the ability to write longhand seems to be on its way out. No one can spell unless there is a spellcheck facility and as for arithmetic - did I hear you say "What's that?"

Sad, sad, sad!!