You are forgetting...that cable box or satellite dish box has buttons to manually to change the channel and adjust the volume without using the remote. If you don't believe get up and look.
There's an insurance company running commercials on television today. It shows two snowflake millennials standing by a car with a flat tire. One kid is on the phone talking to his father telling him that he has a flat tire and what should he do ? You hear the kid say "Yes father I know what a lug wrench is." Then the kid turns around and whispers to his snowflake buddy who's staring at the flat tire "What's a lug wrench ? "
Exactly! Kids are being funneled into a narrow one dimensional world, I hear a lot of kids talk about technology and how smart the world is and how advanced they are, but take away their phone charger and they are lost.
And that's the problem. People are too dependent upon their phone. What do you do when mommy takes your phone? Or when the battery dies, or horror of horrors there is no service? Smart phones are great tools for communication, but they seem to be addictive. And all the time spent chatting and texting and playing on facebook and watching you tube is not productive or enlightening, it doesn't seem to be inspiring people to new heights. People seem to be losing their inquisitiveness, and their ability to put effort into pursuing questions - if its not on Wikipedia, if its not on the first page of a google search, then its too much work to pursue.
These kids today think they are more knowledgeable because of the internet and believe if it's on the internet it must be true like fake news. Like the poster above who made fun of how old people are slow at using a smart phone. One thing about those old people, they are still able to function in the world without a smart phone or having a computer to access the internet. We have already seen in the past when there's sun spot that interferes with satellites and you loose cell phone reception and young people can't function and have a melt down as if it was the night of November 8th, 2012. Some years ago C-SPAN was interviewing to former engineers who worked for DARPA who helped invent the internet for the U.S. Air Force. Yes the internet was invented for the U.S. military so they could communicate during a nuclear exchange. Both said after looking at how the internet has dumbed down the world and how many have become dependent on technology, in hindsight they wished the military were have kept the internet secret. If there was no internet today I know what I would be doing right now. Most young people wouldn't. I can be completely off the grid and I would survive, most would die.
Mine doesn't. Without a remote, I have no way to manually change the channel on my TV, unless I want to watch a blank blue screen.
All I can suggest Quester...don't misplace your remote or you'll find yourself back in the 19th Century. PS. Make sure you have some spare AAA batteries on hand.
Technology, especially I-phones, is making young people stupid, as studies are showing. Worse than drugs.
I've noticed that many millennials can't can't carry on a conversation face to face in plain English. When they do it's like they are only able to speak three or four sentences. What's with that ?
I watch them talking to each other or should I say texting each other while only three feet apart from each other.
They just don't want to speak to you. They can speak well to people who don't automatically disrespect them.
I just observe millennials trying to carry on a conversation between each other. It's actually funny like watching a millennial staring at a flat tire and not knowing what to do.