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Digital zombies: Is technology turning this generation into lazy bums

Our great grandfathers learned to count using sticks and stones. Their children used their fingers or something called an abacus and the children of those children used the first generation calculators.

Today, the simple process of adding up the cost of groceries and subtracting it from a thousand would send most of us to our phones.

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