Are people becoming less intelligent because of technology?

Well, I've never had a good memory anyhow; even from a teenager. I have always had to write things down, and still do. Technology helps with keeping stuff in that I can type up lists rather than write down. It also creates more for me to keep up with.

I tihnk that with the new increases of techonological about that our intelligence isn't being affected as much as it has affect our dependence on them.

Less intelligent perhaps, is not the right term... it's just pure laziness. Because of technology, our lives were made easier. We need not do the longhand to calculate solutions... they're all in the devices that we use... by pressing the right keys, presto! the algorithms are there.

My 4 year old son can type his name at the age of 3. At present, he dislike writing. He prefers use MSpaint rather than the crayola. He likes to play counterstrike and PS3 than kicking and dribbling balls. We are not getting less intelligent but rather just getting more lazy.

because of technology, people are becoming more intelligent instead of less intelligent. as compare to our grandmother time, they do not even know how to start a computer. nowadays even kids know how to blogging. kids even have latest cell phone and know how to operate it. i dont think our parents or grand-parents even know it.

Hello faridii this is checlmail and our intelligence depends on our performance and not of relying on the technology.If the work done is good after using technology with some advantage over our natural technique than its no harm to use it.Yes but if accomplising a work by technlogy which could have been done by our natural ways even in less time and economical too than its our slackness and not lack of intelligence.Its our human attribute that we get lazy when depned on some one or get use to it, its jsut an bad habbit and not any intelligence reduction.Our intelligence cannot be reduced but can increase frmthe going on life.

You have a good memory then. Even before cellphones, I had a hard time remember phone numbers and would use an address book. I think technology can free our minds of suck trival things as remember phone numbers. So, we have more time to think about more important issues. As long as technology is not controlling your life, I wouldn't worry.

I don't think it' that people are becoming less intelligent per say, but I think people definitely become lazier as technology progresses. However, that's normally the intent of said technology and it's not as if people cannot relearn to do what they did before they had their precious technology.

I don't think it has anything to do with us being smart or not smart. We used to write numbers down. We remembered them because we had to type them in manually every time we called them. Now we just press a couple buttons... that doesn't mean we're less smart, it just means we no longer have the need to memorise the numbers. I still write them all down, though... technology can always backfire and lose information permanently. I might lose my notebook, but at least the information wouldn't be gone forever. I do agree that we are becoming too reliant on technology, though. It isn't necessarily making us less smart, but many of us can't imagine how we would get by without things like computers, phones, internet, ect... one of these days it'll all stop working for some reason and we're all going to be lost.