“Will chainsaws make lumberjacks worse at their jobs.” No, technology doesn’t make people less intelligent. This has always been a idiotic thing educators do. Academics are tech resistant because it’s not actually about educating people, it’s about making it difficult so the school appears more prestigious than it is. Sure, students should still learn core mathematics, but the notion we need to not use calculators for advanced math is ridiculous. I majored in finance and economics, I remember getting into an argument with a professor once because he forbid the use of excel. We had to use what is essentially an obsolete calculator. I can quote him to this day with one of the dumbest things I have ever heard a person say out loud. “How do I know you can do this math if you can’t do it with a financial calculator?” That man was a moron, not me for wanting to use a better tool.