Smartphones, tablets, navigators are our faithful companions today. On the street, at home and on trips, they help solve a lot of issues, communicate, and have fun. Every year, people entrust more and more serious tasks to electronic devices, gradually losing the habit of doing anything without their help. Progress gives a person a lot, but takes away no less. By making our lives easier with the help of smart gadgets, we don’t think about the fact that we are depriving our brain of work and bringing very bleak prospects closer: computer addiction and subsequent helplessness, dehumanization of production relations, decline in education, loss of the joy of independent knowledge and creative work in the real world .Describing vivid examples of automation in various areas of our lives, Nicholas Carr warns people against the danger of becoming prisoners of progress, unable to independently build their lives. It’s time to think: what kind of world are we trying to build?