I found it a bit odd the Enterprise crew were pretty much solely dependent on the computer's analysis and definition of "Is it a life form? Is it alive?" What, you can't figure it out for yourselves? Bloody hell.

Wow. That is what I missed? A computer telling people whether or not a new entity is a life form? Ah well. I will try to watch this again some year.

I guess they may have figured the audience needed the computer to say it, in order to be credible.

I found it a bit odd the Enterprise crew were pretty much solely dependent on the computer's analysis and definition of "Is it a life form? Is it alive?" What, you can't figure it out for yourselves? Bloody hell.

Well I guess the same can be said about people nowadays because of calculators and computers can't do ,mental arithmetic anymore.

The more clever the devices we create, the dumber we become as a people, kind of like in the episode When The Bough Breaks .

It's also not difficult to find where schools have decided to replace all their clocks with digital clocks because kids can't tell time and it would hurt their feelings if they had to learn.

Is it really THAT bad Knix?, come on even without learning about a clock one can figure out the basic principles of clock by looking at it and thinking logically.

You and I know that. But apparently kids don't. And their teachers - who may even have trouble themselves - won't press it for one reason or another. Including the likelihood that parents would object.

The most recent example I find is for schools in England. Even in London, home of Big Ben.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2018/05/02/british-schools-are-replacing-analog-clocks-with-digital-ones-to-help-clueless-students

And I disagree with the statement quoted in the article, "There is actually a big advantage in using digital clocks in exam rooms, because it is much less easy to mistake a time on a digital clock when you are working against time.”

If you see a digital time and know what time you have to finish by, you have to subtract to get a number. With analog clocks it's easy to get an impression of remaining time without subtracting.

But what I don't get here is why teachers have to learn the kids ,in my case my parents learned me to tell time with an analog clock even before I went to primary school so shouldn't it be part of the parents responsibility to teach their children time using an old fashioned clock how else would these kids know the time when to get home when they are playing when they are supposed to eat go to bed etc etc.On of the first basic things I was learned after infancy was to learn to tell time and everything has revolved around time ever since.I think we must be glad that we don't use sundials or candles to tell time anymore,the analog clock is a marvel and a mastery of simplicity of design.

Well yes, that was part of the original point. The kids can't tell time in school, because they never leared how, and the teachers don't want to be responsible for teaching them for various reasons. Including that their parents would probably get upset, etc.

Well too bad for the parents I would say ,call me old fashioned but parent have some obligations to teach their children some of the basics in life which are not solely the responsibility of the teacher.And hey if mentally challenged persons can learn to tell time by looking at the the analog clock so can normal children can learn or are we going to change the clockwork of Big Ben for a digital clock just because some kids are too ignorant to learn to tell time from an analog clock?

Digital clocks in schools because kids can't read analogue. Sign of the times. Literally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EdxM72EZ94