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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Randy Abercrombie, post: 3170045, member: 92655&quot;]I believe what you are alluding to is how a younger generation views learned knowledge. I have made a living for thirty years as a commercial construction estimator. Blueprints and engineers scales are the tools of my trade. Nobody is better at it than I am and I have built a successful business around that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Along comes the next generation. I have hired several that have earned degrees in construction and engineering. Yet they have never touched an engineers scale and have no use for full size blueprints. Technology does their work and much of their thinking for them. They get the job done yet they lack any semblance of practicality because their technology does not recognize practicality. I do not understand their ways. They do not understand mine. Yet, they do get the job done.</p><p><br /></p><p>So then if a younger generation is taught to rely on technology to provide their answers, is it so out of line then to believe they are doing the same with some of the posts here? Technology doesn&#039;t ingrain practicality. Does it teach intellectual thinking? Perhaps the divide that seems to be tearing the hobby apart is our inability to relate to the way the younger posters think?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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