Smart Phones, Dumb People

Every year, a new smartphone comes out with brand new, fancy features that everyone has to have. Most of the time, this smartphone happens to be and iPhone. It is not only the iPhone that is smart. There are many smartphones out there, and each year they are becoming smarter and smarter. But are we becoming dumber?

With each new feature that a smartphone has, that is one less thing we need to do, or have to carry. Before smartphones, people knew how to socialize with each other. Now if there are three people waiting in a room, they just pull out their phone and get transported to another world. Our memory has also been diminished by this revolution. Many people have information on their phone, so there is no need to remember it. The smartphone has also affected our ability to focus. When a smartphone is activated, there are many things happening at once so there is no need to  focus on one thing. After it is taken away, people have a hard time focusing on one thing because their phone has trained them not to. Many people have also forgotten how to read a map, since their phone can read the directions out to them. Take away the phone, and nobody knows where to go, or how to get there. The final thing that smartphones affect is our ability to do simple tasks. We no longer need to do the tip in our head, because there are calculators. Many phones also have voice activated features that will answer anything question you have, demolishing the chance for a discussion or research at the library.

As long as the intelligence of phones increases, our knowledge of basic knowledge with declines. Many people need to relearn simple tasks before the phones completely take over.