GPS

People become reliant on technology because they can. As technology progresses, people use it because it is pervasive...and convenient. It is in our DNA to find the easy way to do something and technology offers vast ways of doing more with less effort.

People complained 40 years ago when their kids would spend time hunting for the TV remote rather then getting up and manually changing the channel or volume.

When was the last time you sharpened a pencil rather than just grabbing a pen? Or used a calculator rather than picking up a pen and paper to do the equation?

Modern people have more technology as kids than we did...but you can be damn sure we would have used it just like they do...if it had been available.