We are the last.

It is a dreadful thought but one that needs to be confronted. We are the last. Last of what? You ask. Last of the thinking homo sapiens.

Am I saying that our species is coming to an end? No, I’m just saying that the next generation might well be so dependent on technology that it does the thinking for them. We have already started moving in this direction.

Last time when I got lost at a weird place, I asked google maps, it took me through even weirder places but ultimately it lead me to my destination. If my smartphone or internet had stopped working in the middle then trust me I’d be scared out of my skin. Because then I would be lost at a place where no one was around to take help from.

You see how overdependent I’m (most of us are) when it comes to navigation. We trust it more than anything, if it says right then we move right even if the street peddler says left.

As technology moves forward, we’ll delegate more and more decisions onto these coding algorithms which take the decisions for us.

Tomorrow you could just say, “Alexa, order lunch!” and Alexa would go down the details of what you ate in the morning, what all nutrients you need most, your taste preferences and which restaurants deliver the best quality food. After all this research it will order lunch for you and you are more likely to like Alexa’s choice more than our own.

Because of this we let Alexa take more and more decisions of our life. Making us do less and less thinking. The future generation will call Alexa like we call our mum when we can’t find our clothes.

We are the last set of homo sapiens who think for ourselves. The next generation will have technology that knows what’s best for us. This, in my view, will be more bad than good because our brain is like a muscle, the more we use-the more we have and the opposite is also true.

It would be hard to say but I’ll make the effort to say it-

Your children will be dumber than you are.

Feel good yet?

-ChoubeySahab