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Surrendering Our Cognitive Skills to Machines
Original: "In surrendering to a quick technological fix, we are, moment by moment, doing less sensing, navigating, remembering, wa
An essay on Aeon argues that by outsourcing everyday tasks to quick technological fixes, people are losing core capacities such as sensing, navigating, remembering, walking and paying attention. The piece contends that machines and algorithms are quietly retraining human abilities to work against us. Readers are sharing it widely, debating whether technology's convenience comes at the cost of our own mental and physical skills.
Why now: Growing anxiety about how algorithms and automated tools are eroding human attention and autonomy is prompting debate
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