I left my brain in my cell phone

Reliance on technology can lead to a weaker memory. A few weeks ago I found myself without a cell phone thanks to the incompatibility of water and electronics. The following few weeks made me think about technology in a different light. I had come to rely on my cell phone so much that when I did not have it I was unable to call my parents. My phone remembered their numbers for me so I had not bothered to memorize them. Simple math problems are often delegated to a calculator even though they could be easily solved in our head. Papers are checked for spelling and grammar by the click of a button rather than carefully proofreading them ourselves. When we don't have our laptop or calculator handy we are left stranded. All this reliance on technology can make a power outage feel like the end of the world. If we continue to hand over every task that comes our way to the computer without exercising our minds we are going to lose one of the greatest abilities that God has given us: the ability to think.