Good read if you want to get into it: https://www.npr.org/2025/01/29/nx-s1-5270880/math-reading-co...
Technology does have its effects but this is a very naunced one-sided view, nothing else to expect from the rag that is Fortune.
The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents
And now another ongoing experiment with genAI.
It's both an opportunity and a curse. When I was younger I wrote 3d games in raw assembly language, and created my own language and VM. Today you can now do all of that entirely with AI. It's a huge time saver and will result in greater productivity. However, in order to maintain and build strong cognitive skills, you need to engage in challenging problems and learning.
The drive to solve complex problems and build new and fancy things will always be there, and there will always be a subset of people who will leverage the technology to build even bigger and better things than was possible for our generation. So those people will benefit (and possibly get very rich). The technology will likely raise up everyone's productivity and living standards, although those who don't flex their cognitive abilities might find they suffer more chronic health problems later in life.
