Are we outsourcing our Brain?

More and more man is devising gadgets intending to speed up certain activities and make life easier but in fact are making us less dependent on our brain.I come into contact everyday with people who cannot do simple operations without recourse to the calculator.I am one who supports totally the use of technology in everyday life. Not only does it make life easier and more effective but it leaves time to indulge in leisure.I firmly believe that man was not made so that he can work but that he can enjoy leisure and pleasure.(be fruitful and multiply and have dominion) is the only admonitions we were given. But look what technology is doing to us. Not only are we sedentary but we have become 'impersonal and unsocial' Please note that being sedentary is not leisure.Forget about the dog being man's best friend... the electronic gadget is.I recall in my ststistics classes we had to not only remember the formulae but know how they are arrived at These days studying the formula or the times tables in math and committing them to memory is considered corporal punishmnet.I wish I was in grade school these days I would have saved myself a lot of sleepless nights and 'my hide from the tanning'.Name any game and we can sit in our bedroom and play it without even seeing a court, gym or outside.

Modern man cannot find his way around any more without a GPS. True that society has become more complicated than it was back in the day when men followed the elements or looked at a map. Columbus and them would have been very impressed or very lost. We have become so dependent on this technology the we follow it blindly and dont even know when we are lost until the end.

I am afraid that we are developing a less sociable, totally withdrawn species who would not know to live in a group,lack teamwork dynamics and know nothing about how to get along with his neighbor. We are becoming less and less gregarious. This specie will see the demise of what is understood by the word 'society' Is this the individualist, mechanical, animated,robotical, virtual, antisocial civilization we want to construct? No wonder we are trying to destroy each other. Life means nothing if we ar virtual beings. There is no feeling ,love thy neighbor mentality any more.
We no longer have to know our 'times tables' or how to work out our 'areas', 'percentages' etc we have the calculator. We used to figure out how to get from 'here to there'.. we have the GPS even if we get lost periodically. We do not have to know how to cook: no longer we just have the food delivered to our homes.Cars are becoming smart to drive themselves, park themselves because drivers are becoming dumber. Actually it is not smart cars we need but smart drivers. machines are being invented to do every household chore imaginable. We can even have virtual sex.

Our brain is being required to do less and less and we are becoming more dependent on machines. Even going to work is becoming outdated. We can sit in our living room and teach classes of studente hundreds of miles away and acomplish complex tasks which would take less time than if we had to travel to work.

In addition our technologies are being developed abroad and are repaired by technicians in India,Pakistan etc.