If you don't listen well, or if you don't understand what someone else is saying, it's nearly impossible to respond to a question correctly, or to have a healthy dialogue.
What we didn't foresee was the reaction of friends, who warned that we were putting our children " in danger, " referring vaguely, and most incorrectly, to disease, terrorism or just the unknown.
The original novel tells a similar story, but the theme of the novel was how technology could actually make human beings dumber, and that if we didn't use it properly, our intelligence could be lost.
" Waste" can also be a verb meaning to not use something properly, or in such a way that instead of being useful, it's basically ruined or thrown away, almost as if it were junk or garbage.
But like all sounds that fall on our ears in a state of abstraction, it had no distinct character, but was simply loud and startling, so that she felt uncertain whether she had interpreted it rightly.
And even if we took this study at face value and did the right thing by not looking at it in a vacuum but alongside previous analyses, then it probably won't make a huge of an impact as some might think.