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Pilots everywhere overusing flight management systems. in my generation we called it autopilot. flight management systems are something that makes life very nice for the pilots. but i'm not entirely sure they can be trusted. and one of the reasons why they can't be trusted is if there is an attack such as an electromagnetic pulse, that thing is blown and it's shot, then you have to recover the airplane. one of our incidents was in an aircraft that went down over the atlantic a number of years ago was that the pilots came back in the system. when that system failed. and they were expected to fl...

You spell something wrong, it's highlighted for you. you spelled it wrong. you can press a button to tell you your grammar is wrong. people don't have to learn. we're dumbing down our complete society because we're relying on technology. >> are you done sucking up to o'reilly on this or what? >> i think he's right on this. >> i have to disagree because i think i'm with bob on this. it's easy to blame technology when it's actually ideology. technology is an inert substance, it's like blaming the mailman for junk mail. it's the ideology that we're worried about. what's going through the vessels ...

On farms and then the productivity increases, automation on the farms. people said what will we do with all of these farmers? a terrible thing. they went into the cities and got into manufacturing. the point i'm trying to make is rather than trying to to go back in the business of textiles and things we can't compete any more, we should be competing and putting our emphasis including government policy and all of this stuff on the industries we are good at, on technology, on health and on education and hugely valid industries. >> i agree a hundred percent on that, but, ron, you bring up a great...

User. >> it looks like the national security agency is secretly using tools that allow internet users to track consumers. it shows the nsa and british koufrnter parts are piggybacking on technology advertisers use to target advertising to people they consider suspicious. it not only allows them to monitor a person's web habits it guides hacking software to the computer. the documents show they are using tracking technology for mobile apps and operating systems to help it locate mobile devices around the world. they declined to comment on the reports but issued a statement quote as we said befo...

Up with an -- they opened it up to third party developers, for fuel efficiency. if you can come up with the best app for fuel efficiency, they're pushing the envelope on technology. people want their cars to be just like their smartphones they walk around. they want it to talk to them and interestingly, brooke, fuel efficiency really important to women and to millennials, those are the people buying the most cars right now, ford tells me. >> interesting. guys don't care about fuel efficiency, apparently? just the ladies and the millenni millennials? >> well, yeah. they care about it, maybe not...