Human ingenuity has come very far. A lot of great inventions have shaped the next frontier in technology and the accomplishments that can come from them. People now use inventions made for their utilization on a daily basis.

The printing press: standardized language, increased literacy, and spread ideas across the world.

The Steam Engine: Powered trains, ships, factories and the Industrial Revolution as a whole.

And an invention not many people know off: The Turing Machine. This was the foundational concept and technological blueprint of what our modern computing devices would be made of. Eventually, the Turing machine would become the great, great, great great grandfather of all modern computing devices in our society.

But like all inventions, there is a period of rest before the next big thing comes along. During this time, people can get too accustomed in using whatever piece of technology which makes their life better, and forget how to accomplish simplistic tasks without the help or presence of devices.

An obvious and simple example of this case is nowadays where people don’t read like they used to. This is to say; now every piece of information people seek is found online. Sure there are people who still read newspapers and books for reference or quik glances, but if you ask anybody what they would rather go to, it’s their phone or laptop. I rely on my phone and desktop computer to accomplish my school assignments. This even includes reading the textbooks I need for school which nowadays can be found on online PDFS. The submission of homework assignments is now common to do online and easier to send along with more information in one single file.