>That we became idiots with new tools?

Yes, a little bit each time. But AI will finish the job.

Because earlier it was writing skills, or attention span that was at stake.

This time it is literally the ability to think.

Pray tell, what makes you impervious to the atrophy and mental decline caused by these inventions? Do you just not use "calculators, radio[s], cameras, phones, computers, smartphones, [or] social networks"? And so, you have avoided the trap of technologies through defiance?