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I'm wondering if the issue is similar to having GPS and never having to learn the streets of the city you live in. If you can simply type the name of the file y

• dreamcompiler 5y ago
  I think that's a good analogy. Not only do many kids today not know how to read a map or find their way around without their phone, but when their job is delivering packages and the app steers them to the wrong house they won't look at the physical address marker on the house and sometimes will even argue with the resident and suggest it's the resident who is in the wrong place. They cannot navigate without the computer, and they trust the computer more than they trust physical reality.
• mikewarot 5y ago
  Yes, it is similar. Since kids these days aren't allowed to go outside and play, they are driven everywhere. I noticed that my child had zero sense of which way home was, so I started playing a game. Stop at a random corner (with no traffic behind me), and as "which way is home?". It took a while, but now I get good answers all the time. I myself purchased a road atlas a few years ago, for getting to unfamiliar suburbs on the other side of Chicago. The main use I have for google maps is traffic information.