Instead our brains pocket the technological advance and start to move on to higher order stuff. I'm not so sure they really do. But I'm also not sure what you

Instead our brains pocket the technological advance and start to move on to higher order stuff. I'm not so sure they really do. But I'm also not sure what you mean with 'higher order stuff'. Anyway I see just so many examples of technology not leading to people doing more complicated/smarter/... stuff. I just see people doing what they always do, but in a different way. Some use technology to get creative, others to gain knowledge, others just don't use those capibilities and instead watch hours and hours of TV commercials or subpar sitcoms. Pretty sure without all the tech the creative people would still be creative and the seekers would still seek. Sure there might be slight shifts here and there, there can be more time to spare on different things enabled by technology, but I'm really skeptical there are major changes (though if you have links to research proving otherwise by all means share).