We don't remember directions to places because of gps, we don't remember phone numbers because we don't dial them, and kids aren't learning how to write with a pen because everything must be typed. Read a book once about how technology is dumbing us down because it does everything for us 🤷♀️
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For reeeeaaaaalllll tho.
Especially for maps, people look at me funny when I say I use OSMand on my phone instead of Google maps. Yeah it gives me directions, but in the most barebones way possible. I have to be way more engaged when I drive using that than when I used to use Google maps, cause it basically drives for you. And in doing so, I remember the routes better and don't need it after a few trips to the same place.
That's how I feel technology should be. But most technology isn't, like you said.
We had discussions with the kid about the early days of gps, mapquest, and how a key map was a necessity for driving around downtown Houston. I love the convenience of it all but I do get irritated when I can't remember how to get somewhere.
And also, how do kids who never learned cursive sign their names 🤔
