The capacity of being flexible is valuable. Yes, having the world in your pocket is valuable when something jumps up and goes "boo". However, most people should not need to Google-search "what do I do after 'boo'?" every single time.
Yes, and here's the key: they might still be wrong.
I'm not saying this is the case. I'm saying that this is a possibility. "I took an informed decision which is not due to ignorance" doesn't mean the decision can't still be wrong.
Not to mention that most people just adopt shiny new stuff, hardly pausing to indeed make informed decisions...
I truly do not believe I am wrong for having a smartphone in my pocket when going to the store. I understand the structure and behavior of mobile apps and mobile operating systems far better than most.
> Not to mention that most people just adopt shiny new stuff, hardly pausing to indeed make informed decisions...
Now we are back at the ignorance claim! I've got a PhD in mobile security. I've been working in this space for more than a decade! I assure you I have done more than "hardly pausing".
People claimed that bicycles would cause the destruction of society when they were introduced. Can't I just declare that all of the skeptics are ignorant luddites using the same arguments you are?
That's technical knowledge though.
But there's another thing when it comes to ignorance or not, that's not tied to "how they work".
The understanding of their social/political/etc implications.
Someone who even designs smartphones is not necessarily savvy to the latter. If anything, his whole career gives them an incentive not to be ("it's difficult to make somebody understand something whose career depends on not understanding it").
>People claimed that bicycles would cause the destruction of society when they were introduced.
Well, they were not far off :-) Though that's more like a "people have been wrong about X in the past, so they can't be right about Y now".