Thinking tools versus thinking? From television and calculators to A.I.

Before A.I., pretty much every new information tool was feared and opposed as an enemy of human cognitive advance. Television (1985): “People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” [1] Calculators: This 1986 protest by teachers against the use of calculators. Kids are “addicted” to them, […]