What Doesn't Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength

by Scott Carney

but it turns out that the technologies that we believe are our greatest strengths are also our most tenacious crutches. The things we have made to keep us comfortable are making us weak.

There has to be a balance in the gain of making life easier. An advancement is an opportunity to put more bandwidth towards something else in our life. Hopefully it's something productive like a relationship, learning, making the world better.