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This kind of mind rotting is everywhere - lists for a few shopping items, using GPS for a simple route you should be able to remember after looking at a map, reminders for important dates, using a calculator for a simple sum.

I'm sure humanities over reliance on mental aids will increase Alzheimers like mental deficiencies as we age.

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Or we could, you know, use those spare brain cells to do higher level things, as the high level beings we're supposed to be. I don't know how to knit my own clothes but I doubt that has a major impact on the onset of Alzheimer's :-)

Until the Butlerian Jihad my friend

Whats the Butlerian Jihad?

It was an event in the Dune timeline where humans overthrew their machine overlords and vowed to never build machines in the lines of the human mind and never become dependent on machines or mechanical thinking again.