We Are All Getting Dumber... Some Faster Than Others

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Have we made things too convenient for ourselves?
It sounds like a dumb question but the user-friendly, experience optimized, child safe, seamless, frictionless, forgiving and intuitive world we have built around ourselves may genuinely be undermining our ability to learn basic concepts, take basic responsibility, and even hold down a basic job.
Multiple studies on different areas ranging from personal finance, to career skills down to basic critical thinking have highlighted this trend, and unfortunately it only seems to be getting worse.
Modern technology has undoubtedly made our lives more convenient, but that isn’t necessarily the problem just by itself, and while it’s easy (and honestly a little bit funny), to point at “the kids these days” with their ipads and their 6 7s… this by itself is really not that different from what every generation has said abou every other generation that came after them since the industrial revolution.
Not many of you watching would know how to use a city directory to plan out an unknown route because almost all of us now have perfectly up to date GPS sitting in our pocket at all times.
There is arguably no real difference between that and people from the early 1900s not knowing how to start a fire with sticks, in both cases modern technology had just made those skills irrelevant…
So then… What's the difference today?
Well that’s what researchers are trying to figure out, (because… well there really is something different today) and there are some theories that are each worth understanding…
but there is also the problem of what these tools are actually trying to achieve.
In a fight between easier and better it does feel like the market is overwhelmingly favouring easier…
And then of course above all of these today, there are AI tools that almost certainly have the ability to augment and enhance real thinking and productivity, but are almost universally being sold as a “cost effective” way to just replace it…
The tools that we have used to make our lives “easier” have become exponentially more complex while the tasks they are enabling have become extremely simple by design.
So on top of all of this we should probably also ask ourselves what happens if we pass down a world that future generations are too dumb to maintain.