My Big Question

What is the point of expanding our knowledge and learning? To pass it down for further research or to be turned into a legend as technology grows and replaces the thinking portions of our daily lives? What happens when advanced technology is abused and only two ranks in society exist: the intelligent and the ignorant as scholars create more advanced technology and naive people become more dependent on "smart" phones to do all the thinking? What would happen if we lacked such technology today? Would our world's perspective be less judgmental or more?