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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Plumbata, post: 3248895, member: 96864&quot;]The social fragmentation that [USER=87200]@ancient coin hunter[/USER] referenced is an extremely important issue. Instead of developing a well-rounded understanding of all sides of an issue, vetted through real-life polite discussion and idea-bouncing, the proliferation of quarantined online &quot;echo-chambers&quot; for individuals to have their inaccurate subjective beliefs reaffirmed and crystallized by a like-minded minority of the population instills a solipsistic intellectual laziness in people, making it easier to double-down and insult others for not believing in &quot;Flat Earth&quot;, &quot;Reptilian Illuminati&quot; or other silliness that wasn&#039;t really an issue decades ago. Generally speaking, it is easier and instinctively preferable to &quot;be right&quot; than to be wrong and then get enlightened with facts, and technology makes it much easier to construct a protective bubble against the &quot;threat&quot; of one&#039;s own objective ignorance.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another extremely alarming problem is the damage done to children raised by screens. I&#039;m 31 and remember life before the Internet and Google, but now millions of children are being raised by addicted adults who spend more time focused on their own phone than on the emotional or interactional needs of their toddlers. Young children are exceptionally observant of the cues provided by their parents, and if the adults are spending 8+ hours a day zombified by technology that is precisely what the children will emulate as natural behavior.</p><p><br /></p><p>Studies are only now beginning to come out demonstrating that children handed an ipad or smartphone when they clamor for attention or stimulation by tech-addict parents are becoming severely damaged in their emotional and social development, such that they can&#039;t recognize or respond to different facial expressions and the underlying emotional state being communicated. Otherwise normal children raised by screens are shown to possess social/emotional intelligence deficits similar to those with Autism in times past, and the consequences of this tragedy haven&#039;t even begun to materialize. They&#039;re now offering basic &quot;socialization&quot; classes/seminars for new college students (forget about formal cotillion classes LOL!), but that&#039;s nothing compared to the problems society will face when the socially and emotionally stunted toddlers raised by screens become adults and stumble their way into procreating themselves, and so on. I&#039;d wager that we haven&#039;t even begun to see the damage to the human mind and society wrought by this slavish reliance on tech, and since the average global IQ is 2-digits I don&#039;t really reserve much hope for the future of the species. Maybe the Amish got it right, haha.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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