This has already happened (agree). I personally have moderately replaced the use of google by the use of AI as I have found AI to be far more efficient as a search engine. I understand the fundamentals of how an AI search engine works and so I typically will not critically think about the information being received and therefore I forget to question the logic presented. This of course is not good and when done frequently could replace your critical thinking capabilities.

This is certainty an interesting and comparable situation. If I am within my region of the state, I will try to avoid using GPS routes and go off of picture-based memory. But with the distant locations where GPS is needed, I will tend to easily forget the routes I had taken and will need to use GPS on the returning drive. This was a great example to use for how tech can moderately replace our ability to use navigation tactics through memory. Similar to how AI can overtime replace our ability to do once needed day to day tasks.

I found this somewhat surprising but also understanding. With the modern-day internet, we are given the opportunity to read endless material that would otherwise prior to the internet take weeks to encounter. That being said the amount of resource has turned us into more decoders of information -- when we skim through an article and do not find the exact information that we need we go onto the next article and the cycle repeats -- thus causing us to become more like decoders rather than forming rich connections with the text.

I can for sure relate and agree to this. I find myself loosing focus almost instantly after reading a few paragraphs of content within a blog post -- so I end up skimming through it as fast as possible -- it helps me to stay focused; however, I miss any real deep analyzation of the text.