Is the contemporary man can do without a computer?

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Is the contemporary man can do without a computer, and maybe we are such that nothing can be done without a computer. I'm afraid that soon even procreation can not handle without the help of a computer
It's a little joke

I love computers but everything has its limits.

Every had bad days.
Today such day.happened to me

I live in Wroclaw, is a very beautiful city in the southern Poland, approaching the end of the semester. Today I had a test of English language level B2 2, moreover, I do not know what my English Language course for graduate studies, I had 4 semesters of English at the undergraduate, moreover, I believe that my level of knowledge of the language is sufficient. Unfortunately, the program of study requires that we went to English.

Unfortunately, today was the problem of urban transport, normally I use the trams are fast and do not stand in traffic jams, but today was the problem I reached only half the route, Than tram stopped, and before us another stop 5 trams and not going on while track was free and it was no traffic jam at all. It turned out that the computer system which manages public transport is crashed..

I had to take a taxi to be on time for the exam, it cost me 9 zł and i was late, and a lot of nerves, I was really pissed off, but i have really good English teacher, he examined me while he really don't have to do at all:-)

m wondering are our Polish motorman and urban bus drivers are such idiots that they can not ride without a computer? Does your computer have them all show?
After all in communism time (though I'm too young to remember it, I was born in 1986) drivers and tram drivers, do your job without a computer. Even 10 years ago did not have this system and it did just fine. These were funds from the European Regional Development Fund for infrastructure development Very Happy And today was opposite. Thus i must admit that this system really improved our mass transit, the bus and trams, are more reliable and better keeping schedule than before, especially the electronic display showing actual arrival on every tram on bus stop are really cool

I have been taking courses in transportation engineering for my masters degree. Your English is very good, although you tend to leave out what are called "direct objects" and "indirect objects", but what you are saying is clear enough.

I am going to work off the assumption that what you call trams are what I call light rails, and are more like a train than a car. Sort of like an above ground subway for urban commutes.

City networks are more interconnected today than they were 30 years ago. The public transportation system has arrival and departure times for stops that must interconnect between trams, buses, and underground trains. To keep the timing system, and to prevent wrecks on tram lines a computer system is required to monitor what train is on which track and going which direction, and able to signal route changes to all other trains in case of a disturbance. Several tram systems do not have actual drivers, they have a control operators. These people work with in the program system to control normal stopping, speed given the conditions of the route, manual emergency stop, and some control over starting times at stations. The control operator does not actual "drive", or have independent control over the tram. Thus when the system crashes, the operators can do very little. The system designers did this because it prevents accidents, and because it increases user satisfaction to have a reliable time schedule (when the system works).

I am sorry you had a difficult day.