[thorin]

Not just satnav, but as a kid I could remember at least 20 phone number of close friends and family. My spelling used to be quite good, but now I struggle with words my 9 year old can spell. I think this is the way with any new technology, we just move to the next level of abstraction and hopefully get to build bigger/better things...maybe.

[sejje]

I've never heard of spelling regressing.

I think my spelling ability is mostly correlated to how much I have read. I know how to spell many words I've never used myself.

[Cerium]

One thing I notice is that I can't spell out loud anymore. I have to type or write to get the right spelling.

[callbacked]

I would wager that autocorrect/predictive text on your phone is to blame for that. It is such an overlooked convenience to a problem we solved decades ago that it is on virtually any smartphone.

Typing in a hurry or you forgot to add one more s in the word 'necessary'? No worries! Keep typing incorrectly and the phone will take care of the proper spelling of the word for you! And it will do so faster than you figuring out the right spelling for the misspelled word. Many of us have probably regressed in our spelling ability to some degree at this point.

[tetris11]

I do find that my ability to multitask has improved as of late, and I can switch contexts much faster by just knowing that I can quickly probe an AI to bring up to speed on a topic I used to know in detail about.

(Though it could also just be that I've gotten significantly better at taking notes over the last 5 years)

[paulcole]

Isn’t this just what previous generations called getting old lol?