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Conservative generation gap nonsense. The prevelance of Google Maps means people can't plan directions and hence can't read some graphs?

Ban television, radio, electric lights, the horseless carriage, automated looms, steam engines, the printing press, and writing while you're at it.

This sort of "the basics are really important" nonsense is sometimes heard from the old directed at the young because they can no longer argue against calculators themselves, so they make a proxy.



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