Is technology that scary?

Can we please stop being lazy and use the resources available to solve some of the problems we face?

Problem:

So, I have a young child in school and I am aware that her schoolbooks tend to weigh a lot. I have read that if they carry more than 10 - 20% of their body weight they can possible suffer from some back problems. Well, I can not speak for others but my child is small and weighs only around sixty pounds. I can promise you that her school books weigh well in excess of 6 pounds. So there are some potential problems here.

Question:

What are we doing to fix this? Can it be fixed?

Solution:

(I would say that both parents and schools alike are essentially not viewing this as a problem or are choosing to not fix it. ) but what can we do ...kids have to have books...

No kiddin. Why don't we try and use our brains for once. Right now, there are commercially available items which could alleviate this issue.

Here are two such examples.

If schools were to use something like these, children's books would never weigh more than three or four pounds. All of the current books could fit onto one of these with room left over for a dictionary, full set of encyclopedias, thesaurus, and another other texts that were applicable at the time. These units cost under $400 as they are now. Mainly this is because they are not widely used. If they were to be mass produced for schools, I would imagine the cost would be very minimal, especially as compared to the cost of textbooks. The cost to replace the unit would be minimal and there would be no cost to replace the information contained within as the information would be licensed through the schools. All schools would be able to have available, the most recent texts. The more economically challenged schools would not have to wait years on new school books.

Why would we not improve a situation if it would be so easy to do so? We are lazy and scared of technology. The 'we' I am referring to is the parents. Children are not in charge and they are not afraid of technology nor change.

Tell me how this is bad.