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We’ve traded in our calculators and years of high school math for quick fingertips on keyboards. When there’s a question I don’t understand, I don’t hesitate to pull up Google.

I do believe that we should take the initiative to pick up a pencil every once in a while, and do things like we used to. But without technology where would we be – back in the Stone Age?

What we gave up is not equal to what we’ve been able to gain in this day and age. The older generations should stop living in the past, hop on the hovercraft and come on over to the present.

Technology will never go away; it will only continue to become better and more advanced. Our ability to quickly access information counterbalances whatever “dumbness” our generation exudes. The days of tapping our heads with the tips of our pencils trying to figure out an answer are sadly over, and we 20-somethings don’t mind. CT

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