Do modern gadgets make people dependent and lazy?

Just this weekend I went on a camping trip with some friends, and if not for GPS and direction-based services like Google Maps, you probably would never have heard from me again. GPS has made it so easy for us to get from Point A to Point B that imagining a world without it is almost impossible. Some of us can’t even remember the last time we physically had to crack open a road map just to plot out a trip — everything is digital now.