They Say #3

Didi Cece wrote an article for "The Star" called "Technology is Dumbing Down our society" in which he describes the advancement of technology from the 1950's to the present. The technological advancements are called advancements for a reason, they're suppose to make society better off in the long run. However, he makes a strong point in which he describes school lessons in which kids, from an early age, are taught to use calculators and spell-checks instead of their heads. In Cece's point of view, as well as my own, that seems to make society better off because it makes students, our future workforce, depend more on technology to get work done. Why hire a person to do math related work when I can just hire a calculator?