Holy crap, Apple managed to provoke philosophical debates all over the place with this one product release. RE: calculators and 'dependency' on technology - my own strengths lie somewhere outside of numbers. If I can create a tool - or receive benefit from the tools created through the brilliance of others - that will allow me to exploit my strengths and put tools to service to hasten that endeavor, I am all for it. Many people can wrestle numbers to the ground in no time -- I can not. I am as happy to use a calculator as I would be happy to use a spear to kill a wild boar for food. Sure, I could try to do it without the weapon and take it on with my hands, but I am clever enough to have a tool. It's what humans have always been doing. I could constantly badger someone who is good at numbers, but why, when I can make use of a tool created through our collective ingenuity? I'd also make use of a walking stick, a cane, or a crutch for a bum leg (though, let's not kid ourselves, I'd obviously pimp it out) to give support to an existing weakness. Tools rock. Humans are really good at making and finding novel uses for tools. Jesus, it's 2010 and we are arguing about calculators. All that said, I think the Luddites get a bad rap. Their grievances were legitimate.