Do modern gadgets make people dependent and lazy?

We mentioned Wikipedia, Quora, and Twitter earlier: services that make it easier for us to source information online. What about more recent news and updates? With technology, there is no need to crack open a newspaper and flip through to your favorite section. Online, we have access to services that both aggregate our favorite news sources and shoot the most “interesting” headlines into view, as well as applications that combine our subscribed feeds and pool them into one convenient location.