Technology Dumbing Us Down?

Had a conversation with a professional photographer who got the latest and greatest camera from Canon, the 5D Mark II. He says it's like a camera from another world it's so far out there technologically. It does so much for the photographer that you can get kind of lazy and actually regress in your skills if you are not careful. What else... the GPS? Calculators? Clocks? Digital cash registers?

What does this have to do with Legos? Well this past weekend, my son spent it building the ultimate in Mindstorms gadgets. It was the Rubik's Cube solver called the Tilted Twister. It took about 2 hours to build and then a lot of work to get the new cube we bought to wear itself down enough in order to work right on the contraption. Used to be in the old days, we actually had to learn how to solve the Rubik's cube with our hands. Now you just download instructions and a program and you're good to go. Just pop that little unsolved baby into the slot and out comes the completed cube.

Ahh technology... is it actually making us more stupid? Well someone actually came up with the building design and program to solve the cube.Now if we could all push ourselves to seek to continue to challenge our minds.

Join us next weekend as we work on the Soduku solver built with the Mindstorms.