As people rely more and more on technology to solve problems, the ability of humans to think for themselves will surely deteriorate.
I have very strong faith in human brain. I believe that human beings have evolved up to this level where they are able to build technology to think for themselves, and going forward from here there is no limit for human mind’s evolution. Every new technology definitely brings a lot of comfort to humans in every way, whether it is physical or mental. And hence restricts the amount of effort that they have to put through to get something done. But, it also gives them enough extra time to let them evolve themselves from the state they are to a new level of thinking.
It is indeed true that we humans whenever we get the time and a mode of relaxation we tend to incline ourselves there very easily, but even that cannot in any circumstance overcome the fact that human mind is extremely curious. You only have to give it enough time, it is capable of finding a food for thought and is an extremist. It will take a single spark of thought to new dimensions of imaginations and realities which actually becomes common realities for those who are scared of exploring or are prone to laziness when given an opportunity.
Therefore here is my strong opinion on whether the thinking abilities of humans will deteriorate with the advancement of technology, I think that it will not happen. The mind is a curious being. And this mind has no bounds. Whatever new obstruction you bring to it, it will successfully use it as its means to achieve something miraculously new.
The survivor phase for human beings on this planet or in this Universe is not even close to an end. And until human have the capability to evolve, they will live. And technology can only make the life of plebeian a toy in the hands of technology, but the bright minds will always exist and they will always break the hurdles in the path of advancement.
Now let’s see this in the light of technology for the plebeian or the common man who avoids thinking. Today, what I see is that every new generation is coming across as smarter than the previous one. And it is not just because of the information technology, but also because of the ability of the mind to relate with the technology and to be able to use it. So a person who has never been more than a mundane user of means at his ends is now trying to learn something. He is trying to enforce upon him a new technology and hence is learning something out of his own comfort zone.
When a person does that, when a person tries to break the comfort zone and achieves a new reality, he in the process also broadens his frame of reference, and hence is more susceptible to accepting new realities, and out of the inherent nature of his curious mind, forces himself to think and apply it to circumstances around him. This is also a kind of thinking that he does.
Therefore, although technology brings laziness in thinking it also bores people out of laziness and helps them find something more and something new to think about.
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