Have you all seen the trend? Simplicity is a means to say something is basic. Simple. As technology grows, itself becoming more complex, the end result is a more simple interface for the human counterpart.
Don't believe me? Look at some of the things that people have become so incredibly dependent on that we've been put on a par with a little orphan boy during the Industrial Revolution.
Think about the numerous times you've used wikipedia, google, answers.yahoo.com to fulfill a need or desire. Now think about and remember how many times you've retained that knowledge rather then just copying and pasting what you needed at that critical moment. Does anyone remember the Encyclopedia? Even I barely do. Back in the day, research required effort. That effort translated into a love-hate labor, but the process was so meticulous that you generally remembered what you were looking for sheerly for an excuse to justify the hard work.
Look at programs like Firefox that automatically spell check every input we make. Even I can't deny my regular usage of it. For a year or so I relied on firefox so heavily that I had given up spelling experience the correct way and aimed for something ugly such as "expeierence" because I knew my fox de la feugo had my back. How incredibly lazy and unforgivable.
Am I denying the greatness that this technology offers us? Not at all. I am concerned thought that at some point it will become such a necessity that the first thing taught in schools will how to interface with the computer to fix our mistakes.
Technology is wonderful. It's brought society closer, it's advances our possibilities and it's making us completely stupid.
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