It seems that society has done a fabulous job of engineering things that are good for us out of our lives. Escalators are one such invention that has made it convenient to not exercise so much so that excercise needs to be planned and really worked at. Prepared foods can be high in fats and other badnesses yet they are convenient so we go for those instead of healthy foods that need to be made.   We have even figured out how to easily get information to show up for us on our iPhones, it tells us where things are and what things mean just by talking to it. So what I wonder is are we engineering thinking out of our lives? Is there any loss to us if we dont know how to do traditional research without using Google? What thinking activities are we now losing that we will need to make up elsewhere?