What if, by handing our efforts over to the machine, we were unlearning how to think?
Once upon a time, you had to get lost to learn how to find your way. Today, a synthetic voice guides us step by step, and our mind gently dozes off. We delegate everything: memory to the cloud, logic to the algorithm, decisions to the recommendation. It is comfortable, smooth, almost magical. But that comfort has a price: the slow atrophy of intellectual effort.
We call it progress. Yet behind this promise of efficiency lies a silent drift: cognitive laziness. The imperceptible slide by which we stop reasoning, doubting, searching, and simply approve whatever a machine suggests.
This article explores that phenomenon, not to put technology on trial, but to question what it is making of us: beings ever more assisted, sometimes brilliant on the surface, but less and less present in their own thinking.
What if, in the age of all-round assistance, thinking became our last act of freedom?
Find the full transcript of this episode, along with all the sources and plenty more, at: Cognitive laziness in the age of universal assistance
