A lot of this stuff depends on how a person chooses to engage, but my contrarian take is that actually throughout history whenever anyone said X technology will lead to the downfall of humanity for y reasons, that take was usually correct.

The article he references gives this example:

“Is it lazy to watch a movie instead of making up a story in your head?”

Yes, yes it is, this was a worry when we transitioned from oral culture to written culture, and I think it was probably prescient.

For many if not most people cultural or technological expectations around what skills you _have_ to learn probably have an impact on total capability. We probably lost something when Google Maps came out and the average person didn’t have to learn to read a map.

When we transitioned from paper and evening news to 24 hour partisan cable news, I think more people outsourced their political opinions to those channels.