Technology is helping diminish essential and traditional skills. Microwaves allow us to avoid learning how to cook properly. Auto-tune means professional singers don't even have to be able to sing in tune (either live or in the recording studio). Spell check, something that has affected me through my education, means that basic grammar and spelling skills become unnecessary as the computer can do it for you. Unfortunately when technology is unavailable this lack of skill becomes exposed and creates problems.
Could technology be manipulated so it physically helps the user to develop real skills? This would probably only work if the user is unable to disable the technology discipline.
I could create physical punishments when mistakes are made, such as spikes popping out of the keys of a keyboard when typos are made. (i.e. in the crude image above)
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