The demand for tech will necessitate emphasis on math, but I'm more concerned with English.
Technical writing today is horrifically bad. Instructions and instruction manuals would be hard pressed to get any worse.
In providing instructions, the very first rule should be...
ANTICIPATE THE LIKELY MISTAKE.
This concept is obviously unheard of by the current generation.
It goes well beyond technical writing.
People mangle the language because they feel like it and they can.
They invent new meanings for pronouns to be politically correct.
They disrespect proper grammar so much that they refer to people who respect it as "grammar nazis."
They use texting abbreviations in all written correspondence.
It's gotten really bad, and it probably won't get better because so few people seem to care.
I suspect that it began with people abandoning established formality in their personal conversations.
Whatever the reason, we're losing the ability to communicate cogently.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
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