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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the fact that tech makes everything so convenient is the prob.  We can google wiki Reddit and tik tok.

Nobody needs to know how to read a map.  We don't write anymore just type.  Nobody even has to talk or go out - you can simply text and order online.

Culturally, even us adults have short attention spans no?

Af the same time, I feel like the world is moving away from how things were done and into a new paradigm.  I'm not sure we will even need to be able to write the way we have leveraging critical thinking with AI in development.  Whether AI will be delivered sooner v later is a big question however.

I think that it's harder to find people and not just kids who are awful at basic skills.  I hire professionals in various industries and there's very few who I think twice about.

While every generation complains about changes they see in the next, I definitely agree that my kids' generation lack the focus of mine.  But it's my generation who led them here with all the new toys we developed. Their reality however greatly differs from ours and I think we have to recognize that the world simply moves faster now than it used to.  [/quote]

There's truth to this. Technology has basically made people dumber.  They've done studies on the brain of taxi drivers in London who have to pass one of the most difficult exams in the world to get a license. They have to drive without a GPS in London and get from where they are to any random chosen point with no maps  tech.  They have to know the entire city of London by memory.  Brain scans have shown that those cab drivers have larger areas of the brain for spatial learning/memory than your average person in public.

It's like weight lifting for your brain.  The more you actually use your brain, the stronger it gets as opposed to letting tech do everything for you.

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/02/1051363389/researchers-study-london-cab-drivers-brains-to-learn-more-about-alzheimers
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