Kight, Nicholas: Paglia

Many things that people are told about college are false. Colleges prepare students for their chosen field of expertise, but for nothing else. A student wants to learn how to work on computers? College will teach them how to construct and deconstruct a personal computer within minutes.  However, what happens if we as a civilization suddenly become unable to use electricity for some reason or another? Students who has devoted all of their time and money learning how to fix computers will have nothing left for them. There’s no point in knowing how to fix a computer when no one can use a computer anymore. It’s rare to find someone whose job goal is to do more than type on a computer and fill out paperwork. What ever happened to toiling out in the fields for hours to grow a harvest of crops? Computers have made it so that all that has to be done is press a few buttons to start some machine to harvest your crops for you. No more strenuous than dialing a phone. What happens if we are unable to use electricity? We wouldn’t be able to just press a button to harvest the crops and plant them. Farmers would have to get back outside and tend the fields like their ancestors did. That would be a problem as most of the farmers who know how to tend a field are too old to do so nowadays and the ones who are young enough to do the hard work are so used to technology that they are unable to work without it. We have put too much reliance on technology in recent years, so much that if it were unavailable to us, we would be almost helpless!