Survival of the Fittest or just not that fit at all?

After reading the two articles, it is clearly evident that us millennials are consumed by technology as a whole. Quite frankly, I believe we as people are now unable to truly survive without it and have lost the "raw" knowledge that civilization once had, prior to the internet. For example, If I seek an answer to a question I may have, I would not go to the library and find the answer myself in a book, utilizing every single ounce of gray matter in my brain. No, of course not, I would not do this. I would search it on Google! Why not, this is what we as a society has become. I am not shaming this, however, where has our basic understanding of knowledge and life itself gone? It has been handed over to technology, the ease of access at our fingertips, why do anything the "old" way ever again? In part to this, I believe we have become lackadaisical. Our minds rely heavily on technology, however this is what we are accustomed to, it is inevitable. It has been constantly around us since we were toddlers and has been growing exponentially ever since. Essence and depth of face-to-face conversation has been eliminated, there are issues more prevalent than ever such as social anxiety, and society can't simply function correctly without their faces buried in a smart phone or social media . Has technology proved to be productive or counterproductive?