Back when I was in high school, there was a day we were in class and this teacher (Let's call her Esther) had walked in for some reason. I don't exactly remember the details of what happened but there was a teacher already in our class before Esther walked in and something led to something that made Esther give us this maths problem to solve.. I think it was to multiply something.
The moment she did, everyone had pulled out their calculator to type in the digits and get the answer that she needed and that was when all hell let loose. Apparently, it seemed she and the other teachers at the staff room were having a conversation about how lazy student had gotten over the years, and how we barely use our brains for anything these days because there's always a gadget somewhere that makes the whole thing easier unlike back in their day where they were smart, brilliant and didn't need gadget to solve maths equations.
Back then when she said all of that, I sincerely didn't see anything wrong with us wanting to use our calculators, not until now. You see, in as much as there are a lot of tech out there that has made life easier for us, it also has made us very dependent and lazy. Nowadays, we barely can answer a question without having to use Google or AI to assist us.
It's almost like we're now perfectly comfortable with the fact of not knowing anything ourselves, simply because there's a gadget somewhere that could do the job for us. Now while that necessarily isn't a bad thing, it's also not a good thing either...being over dependent on anything isn't good because what happens when you get disappointed by that thing.
Imagine how dumb a lot of us would feel if the internet should go off for a day, or worse, a week. Many of us literally won't be able to get anything done. Some of us might not even be able to go to work because we can't remember the route to work, due to the fact that we always were using the GPS.
It might not sound too crazy right now due to the fact that everything still works perfectly fine, but the day we find ourselves in a space where we don't have access to any of those fancy gadgets that makes our lives easier, that is the day we will realize how much damage we've done to ourselves.
