Which skills are we losing due to our increasing usage of electronic gadgets?

THINKING for ourselves & imagination!!!

Besides all these others, we're generally losing the 'edge' from our abilities because we're losing our sense of certainty; the more information and opinions we're confronted with, the more uncertain life seems.

Like the old proverb "If you have one clock, you know what time it is; when you have two, you're never sure.", we have only gotten more unsure, and anxious, with more of everything to consider, particularly information.

That uncertainty, that anxiety, hampers us as we feel more hesitant and unwilling. It leaves us drawing back from what we might have done, and not doing things as well because of a sense of someone or something out there somewhere that might 'get' us, or somehing waiting to if we stick our necks out.

That last part, the punishment just waiting to happen, is exemplified by the rise of the hatefulness of the blogosphere as dominated by the worst, the media's message that, more than ever, only the baddest will survive; only those who chew up and spit out the lesser ones actually deserve to be heard at all.

Wading through the Information Age can stifle the best we have, which only grows with encouragement, not a winner-take-all mentality.

General knowledge. Why learn things when you can just look it up.

Handwriting.

Spelling, not so much with dictionaries and autospell, but txt spk gets around that.

Spelling, handwriting, basic math, grammar, and social skills.

Carpeting, Sense of direction, fitness, etc etc.