Everyone in Vancouver seems obsessed with technology and it is difficult to find anyone not glued to a screen these days in public. People are not becoming more intelligent or well informed but rather are becoming more directed in their choices about what to buy or discuss and this is evident in the lack of social niceties and the general dumbing down of our society which not many people are upset about or even aware of. I predict that this generation and future generations are being encouraged to cut ties with the past including cultural and being urged towards a future in which they are being completely manipulated and where the meaning of having a choice has been reduced to which device you prefer to receive your instructions/information on and not whether to use one at all and where the place you live what you buy eat and think about are all going to be dictated to you without your consent except for that fine print no one ever reads when they add a new app or new software to their device... you have consented also by not protesting the introduction of technology... whether you agree or not if you use technology which we all do you are also complicit in the act of becoming more easily manipulated... not that we have a choice really