Mark Twain would not like what science and technology have brought us to nowadays. Born more than a century before the creation of the first computer, Mark Twain believed that no new idea existed. He believed in a theory that as humans we use what has already been created, we use what he describes as a “mental kaleidoscope to create new ideas, inventions and innovations. Just give this mental kaleidoscope a twist and create new combinations using previously constructed thoughts. Even if no new ideas are created, deep reflection is required to transform the mental kaleidoscope. Today, with smartphones and computers in the hands and homes of people around the world, our capacity for deep thought is diminishing. Along the same lines, as discussed in Nicholas Carr's book, The Shallows, people are thought to become less intelligent. The thought in the book is that although we are still getting smarter, or at least our IQ scores are improving. This fairly steady increase since World War II is known as the Flynn effect. The book goes on to explain that this progress is not due to us, as a society, becoming smarter and having more knowledge than our ancestors, but simply a change in the way we think. In today's society we are programmed to think more scientifically than any previous generation. This paradigm shift in the way we think and look at the world should not be considered progress for our society. In the end, we are only hurting ourselves by decreasing our capacity for deep thought. The inability to think deeply in the relatively near future should be viewed similarly to global warming. We currently have the ability to do something about technology taking over our lives. Something must be done in the next century otherwise we risk it