Technology is a wonderful tool but if you do not understand the basics, you cannot tell if the output is correct. Todays technology does in seconds what it took hours or days to calculate. But you had to know the basics to arrive at a correct answer. Today, computers spit out reams of information but it may not necessarily be correct. And the majority of people today take that output as totally correct.Because they dont bother to learn the basics. Take a look at how the government reports on everything today. Prime example in not knowing the basics. If gasoline, food, healthcare, housing, taxes, etc. have all gone up this year, how do we then have 0 inflation? The computer says so. Thank god I dont need technology to know when I got to crap.