Humans are Robots

In today's society, humans are becoming more and more like robots because of the use and advancement of cell phones. Now that cell phones are more advanced, you can use your phones for many things. You can call, text, surf the web, navigate your way around, and many other things. Because phones now come with many apps, people are even more hooked to it. People are mindlessly on their phones all they time and many use that as their main form of communication. It's not like we are robots because we use our phones, but in a way our phones are robots, controlling us. When we're hungry, most of the time we use our phones to find a place to eat instead of asking around. When we get lost we don't ask for directions anymore, we just get on the GPS. There has been so many times where I have known my way around a place but my friend will still turn on her GPS just to be "safe". Most of the time there are quicker inside routes but she chooses to follow her GPS anyways. She's doesn't pay attention to street names or her surroundings and just blindly follows her phone's navigation, even after knowing it'll take her the long way. From her being so use to using the GPS, she'll never learn the area on her own. The cell phone controls the way we see the world. If a certain food place isn't listed, we'll probably never try it. We won't even know that the place exists because we're so glued to our phones, we live in it.

This is a concern because one day humans are gonna use their phones for everything that it's pretty much thinking and making decisions for us. Also our in person communication skills are going to suck. There are so many people already that don't know how to communicate unless it's over phone or web. This does challenges the presuppositions of what a human is. Humans think, feel, make decision, and communicate. But if this device is doing this for us, won't that make us the machine instead of the actual machine?