http://www.designverb.com/2006/08/17/dumbifying-tech/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:23:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.designverb.com/2006/08/17/dumbifying-tech/#comment-642 designverb Thu, 31 Aug 2006 02:38:32 +0000 http://www.designverb.com/2006/08/17/dumbifying-tech/#comment-642 [...] Just when I thought my math skillz could not get dumbified any comes a “tip guide” on a recent receipt of mine. I received the bill, and as usual, tried calculating what 18% was, but while calculating this mind exercise I noticed on the bottom of the bill was a “tip guide” that already did the calculations at 10, 15, and 20% of the bills cost. As much as I love this little added service, I worry that I’ll become dumb with math, much like what spell-check has done to my mad spelling skillz as I mentioned in my post about dumbifying tech. [...] [...] Just when I thought my math skillz could not get dumbified any comes a “tip guide” on a recent receipt of mine. I received the bill, and as usual, tried calculating what 18% was, but while calculating this mind exercise I noticed on the bottom of the bill was a “tip guide” that already did the calculations at 10, 15, and 20% of the bills cost. As much as I love this little added service, I worry that I’ll become dumb with math, much like what spell-check has done to my mad spelling skillz as I mentioned in my post about dumbifying tech. [...]

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