tech.

Now, being a child of the 90's I was leaving school at a time when both the Internet and technology were really starting to boom and thus have grown up utilising them in most of my learning and growth. However, I have really started to notice over the last couple of years just how much of a detriment it has seemingly been to my brain and will likely only get worse as I get older and technology improves - hello augmented reality.

Basically, I cannot count anymore, genuinely cannot even do simple addition sums in my head because I’m so used to a computer or calculator helping me out. I've worked daily with Excel for over 10 years so my brain has decided to completely forget how to do quite basic math since why would it ever need to now? I also frankly cannot spell anymore due to the strength of autocorrect - have you ever turned off autocorrect on your phone and sent a text to test it? You'll be shocked at how unreadable it is. Can anyone still write joined up? Whenever it's time to write a card it looks as if I've given it a go with my mouth. Memorising things? Nope: who needs to remember dates, facts, birthdays when you can simply Google them for the answer (no, it isn't just me that checks social media for my friend's birthday).

I know more now than I've ever known but I also feel like I'm the dumbest I've ever been in my life. At this point I am just a walking talking conduit for the Internet: an empty shell with an ethernet cable directly from my brain to Google's search engine. Is it just me that thinks about this? I dread to think how devolved humans would be if technology ever went dark. If I'm anything to go by we'd die out through sheer stupidity within 5 years.