The obvious cognitive deterimental effects of using map apps, when we all realized we lose directional sense and our previous ability to navigate without the smartdevices, was society's canary in a coal mine and a headsup of what was coming.
WAL-E and Idiocracy. The future.
This goes with calculator to do basic math, contacts apps to store phone numbers instead of remembering them, and watches to tell time imo.
Sure we could use our brain power with old techniques to do these, but why? I don't want to do any of these. I'd rather use that brain power for other problems.
Same with maps.
I don't want to have to store a bunch of location or routing data in my head.
I think what you're pointing towards is going from having problems to solve to not having any problems to solve.
That's definitely a danger, but right now is still early in the AI era so obviously it'll feel like we went from solving problems to letting the new tool solve them for us.
There are still many problems to solve.
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