while some are negative effects of other activities (smartphones etc.), some are just in decline because their usage is in decline, which is ok. I haven't used

while some are negative effects of other activities (smartphones etc.), some are just in decline because their usage is in decline, which is ok. I haven't used the library to check out a book in years and I rarely write something by hand except to take notes. And despite me having taken post-graduate level pure math-lectures, I will struggle to solve an equation system that involves concrete numbers instead of variables that also don't cancel, i am just astonishingly bad at mental arithmetic. I disagree for some, like "inability to conduct a scholarly literature search on a topic (other than coming back with 8 blue Web links)" and "inability to read a daily newspaper or weekly news magazine to stay informed about current events". Some don't care and some do, so they either research or try to be as lazy as possible. I can imagine it's always been this way.