Are we getting dumber?

No, Not at all we Obviously have grown more smarter and we are still becoming smarter. We have surely become more Lazy as all the work we have is simplified by machines but we have become more smarter as compared to our Ancestors. Nowadays small kids are able to do very much creative work and in our time we could not even operate our Computer. The Generation is moving at a very fast rate and is becoming smarter day by Day.

Technology really makes us dumber. We rely more on them when learning facts. Books and other reading materials become useless when we use the computer. We tend to focus on searching the net rather than reading a book to find facts and answers.

With the birth of all these new age technologies it has not only made the brains lazy to think as everything now goes with the press of the buttons and we'll get all the information we are looking for, it has also made us poorer as anything new in the market is quick to make us rush to get it. Our human wants are never satisfied. The latest model in town is sure to hit the price ceiling and our eagerness to have a new gadget is something most of us can't resist. It is made us twice a fool.

I think most of us have are relying too much on technology that we just don't want to stop and analyze anymore. Homeworks and papers used to mean going to the library and working on them. Nowadays, it usually means just searching the internet and sometimes, just copying stuff off the internet. I understand that's not always the case but I believe it happens a lot. This is sometimes evident like in during the segment "Jaywalking" from the "Tonight Show with Jay Leno," there are many people who have don't know much about general knowledge, which is quite ironic. Questions as simple as what is in the center of the solar system, a person answered the earth for goodness' sake. From the show "Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader," one of the worst was someone spelled "vowel" as "voul". I find it very alarming because the children today who are exposed too much to the comfort of technology and become "lazy and dumber" will be the future of our civilzation. But again, there's always smart and intelligent children/adults. To everyone reading this, I am not saying everyone is like this. I'm just expressing my opinion and presenting some of my observations.

I would not say dumber at all but I certainly can say that most are getting lazier. As yes technology convenience certainly helps us to forget the old ways which we at times refuse to go back.

For my share of the pie, I think that the technology today is changing us and made everything from the simplest task more convenient. Other people might termed it lazy, and it is true. In terms of remembering or memorizing, I think we still do that too but only to a smaller extent. I guess that we are not too discerning when it comes to information and other things that came out of the web. Another concern of mine is the information overload that some people might be experiencing from constant use and exposure to the internet. We're not getting dumber but we are settling for the second best, maybe even the lowest best. You really can't blame people for being too reliant on technology but it always up to the person/user to make most of technology. Sometimes, people tend to forget to what extent a tool can help and what ways a tool can hinder.

Not really to me, I don't buy all of those thing because having one or two is enough. Plus they are not a free stuff anyway. People still needs to work hard and save a lot to enable them to get these technology stuff. It mostly a good help for me, for example online banking when I live in the city where it is far away from a lot of things including banks, offices, and so on. Only some people who are really worshiping this stuff and even sometimes forgetting the real life without any of these gadgets. Thanks for sharing and have a nice day

Hard to say--now that we have access to all of this information, plus different viewpoints, perhaps we are becoming generally more knowledgeable. But certainly we are losing basic skills, such as addition and subtraction, spelling, and handwriting, now that technology handles all of these things for us!