"Bicycle for the mind", as always when it involves Jobs, sounds more fitting for the masses though, so thanks for sharing that :)
Though if apocalypse happens and all of our built tech goes away, we are in for a serious survival issu.
given that we've also lost the faculty to look at the past with anything other than contempt most people wouldn't even know what they miss. The little problem with losing the 'general cognition' department, just like broad social or cultural decline is that you lose the ability to even judge what you're losing, because the thing you just lost was doing the judging
(1) It captures the ideal so well
(2) The bitter irony of how thoroughly pre-OS X Macintosh computers failed to live up to it
I feel like there's a similar dichotomy in LLM tools now