An interesting article I found

[beclauss]

https://feistymarty.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/technological-progress-is-like-an-axe-in-the-hands-of-a-pathological-criminal-albert-einstein/ What do you guys think of what this guys says?

[thekeemo]

Every step closer to being calculators the better

[beclauss]

Every step closer to being calculators the better

When the point of a book is to actually READ and use your own brain and imagination! Video games? … yeah that’s reality. It wasn’t that long ago when I was a kid and all we had was Atari available to us besides the video games and pinball machines in bars and arcades. Kids used to know how to build forts, climb trees, ride bikes and skateboards, and actually PLAY with other kids. How is our obesity and diabetes rate working for us and our kids?

What do you think of this part?

[thekeemo]

When the point of a book is to actually READ and use your own brain and imagination! Video games? … yeah that’s reality. It wasn’t that long ago when I was a kid and all we had was Atari available to us besides the video games and pinball machines in bars and arcades. Kids used to know how to build forts, climb trees, ride bikes and skateboards, and actually PLAY with other kids. How is our obesity and diabetes rate working for us and our kids?

What do you think of this part?

There is no point.

If we become fully logical programs we wouldnt have any of that

[Vivilacqua1]

I read the first two paragraphs, what the actual fuck. I get that there are drawbakcs, but "not learning how to spell" is extreme over exaggeration.

[Infernal Burrito]

When the point of a book is to actually READ and use your own brain and imagination! Video games? … yeah that’s reality. It wasn’t that long ago when I was a kid and all we had was Atari available to us besides the video games and pinball machines in bars and arcades. Kids used to know how to build forts, climb trees, ride bikes and skateboards, and actually PLAY with other kids. How is our obesity and diabetes rate working for us and our kids?

What do you think of this part?

I, as someone who had video games when I grew up, have no problems with obesity or diabetes. If it mattered in the real world if I knew how to climb a tree or build a fort, I would have learned it. Why are current video games any different from those on the Atari and on arcades in terms of their effects on people? This entire article seems to me to be entirely based on generalizations and misinformation. How is technology murdering us all? Without it, we would have more disease, less knowledge, and issues otherwise less known would not have been popularized and thus fixed by the internet (see that one kid who brought a clock to school and was arrested because it looked like a bomb). If you asked the non-moronic kids of today, they would know much more than their counterparts from say 50 years ago because they have access to the internet. The hyper-condensed information that people are used to is in no way less worthy than the less efficient information of the past. Although a lot of kids seem not to know spelling or grammar, that is likely not the case. On the internet, not only are much younger kids than one would expect posting all of that nonsense, but many of them do know how to write correctly, but they do not because they feel it is unnecessary on the internet. And even if they couldn't spell, why would they need to? If all they will ever do in their lives will have spell check, why would they need to waste time learning a skill that they don't need. As for writing with pen and paper, it is a near-antiquated concept. Schools still teach it, but kids don't want to learn it. They don't care because they don't want to learn things they don't think they need.