Does the ability of human own thinking will decay when the technology relied on people increasingly? While some people can find a little examples to indicate that relying the technology make the ability of human thinking down, the truth is that more and more technologies relied on by people make us solve problems for ourselves better and better. After weighing the evidence, it is certain that people more and more relying on technology can’t decrease their own ability of think.
Some people may take the example of calculator to argue that we can decrease our own calculating ability by using it. But, is it real true? By using it, can people really deteriorate their calculating ability? Although, in a way, calculator may slow down the speed of our calculating by ourselves, the ability of calculating is a nature of our humans. If calculator had an ability to decay our instinct, we would even not use it because of using calculator based on our instinct of calculating. Thus, we can’t deteriorate our nature ability to a certain amount as using technology.
The invention of computer is a strong example that the thinking ability doesn’t decay but increase by relying more and more on technology. Before this invention, our thinking to solve problem is too simple. The washing machine, for example, was devised for some functions just by mechanically adding the electronic components. However, after the invention of computer, we can use it to accomplish these functions by coding complex procedures in CPU of machine. Therefore, our ability of thinking can’t decrease but increase by relying on technology.
Consider the light from the invented time to now. Relying on the technology can’t give us darkness but light in our intellectual. Since the invention of light, we have a lot of things such as nocturnal working, deep-sea detection, and oral surgery to do well by this progressing technology. These are all the new areas for human so that they need humans to have a higher thinking ability to solve them.
Ultimately, technology increase the human ability of thinking, not decrease it. While some technologies make us unfamiliar with some mechanical ability, the wiser abilities just have to rely on technology so that they can accomplish the high-requirement works.