Recent science fiction as with the series Humans has begun clanging the alarm bells of automation, where replicants or “synthetics” have been incorporated into every day life as maids, street sweepers, accountants, and many other professions. Threats to human job placement are rampant in the series, and this is indeed a world-wide issue that our species will continue to confront in the next twenty years. But the true danger to “humanness” seems to be the diminishing of the basic human desire to learn, improve, and perfect. It isn’t the danger of rogue replicants or the susurrations of Siri. Rather, our brains are being rewired for passivity eventhough neuroscience clearly shows that brain functions are not static; they are dynamic. The brain, through out its lifecycle, has the ability to significantly rewire itself. And as Nicholas Carr has shown in his two books on the subject (The Shallows; The Glass Cage), our neural pathways form different connections over time (Carr, 2008, 2010, 2013; N. Carr, 2014; N. G. Carr, 2014). The pathways no longer used are doomed to atrophy and die off. New pathways are only grown when the brain is forced into activity, and that is a fundamental aspect of “humanness.”