Probably both.

I thought that was only for summoning ghosts.

But, as an otherwise bad movie pointed out, there is a difference between knowledge and wisdom.

So far, the tech stuff that I used to use reference manuals for, has been reliable, though I suppose I could get into trouble if I happened on the wrong site.

If I don't have a FB account, people think I'm suspicious. If I do have a FB account, people KNOW I'm suspicious!

That's not unique to Google. Before Google, I'd look up stuff in reference manuals. If I didn't use it regularly, I'd forget it, but I knew where the books were. Google is just a more convenient version of that.

When I took the buss there were no "apps". I think they do have notification on when the next bus is coming, but that would just mean I'd know that I just missed the damn thing instead of just suspecting it.

Keep in mind, that though you can eat and sleep in a self-driving car, you'll still want to stop to poop. Presumably you won't do THAT in your car.

Your experience is far different from mine. When I took the bus to work, I was close to a bus stop, but I usually got to the downtown stop just in time to miss the bus from there to work, which meant a 15 minute wait in whatever bad weather was coming down. Plus, the bus route wasn't direct. A straight line in the car was about 30-40 minutes. The bus trip was 60-90 minutes each way, assuming the busses were all on time.

Judging by some of the busses I've seen, puke is the least of the problems.

I think if I never left my house, I'd GO crazy.

I'm not sure which is worse, stuff like this on Slashdot, or the fact that my workday is slow enough to drive me to Slashdot on the worst day of the year!

Neither. The malware war, like tic-tac-toe and global thermonuclear war, is unwinnable.

In some cases, there isn't a "right" answer. One recent site I created an account on asked me about my spouse. I'm not married.

I bet there are a lot of Spring2015 passwords floating around there.