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"Computers make people stupider" have also been a known fact when personal computers became common.
https://www.theregister.com/2001/02/05/computers_are_making_us_stupid/
I'm sure we can trace back "new thing makes people stupider" arguments back to Aristóteles. It's a common human trope.
The link you posted is saying exactly what the problem actually, demonstrably is. In fact it's hard to believe the page was written 25 years ago and not today, how perfectly it predicted the reality.
Did you even read it, or did you ask a computer to summarise the headline for you?
You are using a computer right now. You should stop using any computer ASAP, don't even use one to reply to this comment.
Edit: used a computer to click downvote, instead of delivering a hand painted arrow pointing down by mail. That must be -3 IQ points minimum.
That's both not what an article is about, and not what I was agreeing with.
Your strawman has nothing to do with the subject at hand. The fact that you resort to this obfuscation instead of actually facing the problem, suggests that perhaps your personal conviction is not so rational as you initially thought.
You are trying to analyze a joke my dude. Refer to the other, more serious, comment you replied a few minutes ago if you want real conversation.
Are you positive they haven't? Or are you just balking at the idea that skills your grandfather had are fully lost on you.
Not going to school might make a population stupider. What happens when "using the computer" is kind of like "not going to school"?
Critical thinking is the important part. Being able to criticize thought and results of thing.
Critical thinking is work, though. If the computer can skip the thinking for you, when does it happen?