>>6133669>That's been said about books, TV and video games. Every new tech is seen as some brain killer. But they are right.
Memorizing stories used to be a thing before books. Memorization in general (even education) was a thing until the 1900s, where they wanted people to be more creative and rational.
However, the amount of information and ease of being able to look it up INSTEAD of recalling it by memory is a step backwards in terms of brain development. So even things like contact lists, buddies lists, bookmarks, spell checking, etc etc is detrimental.
>said about TVs, Books, video games and trains. Yes trains. Again, this is also true. And we've become even MORE sedentary by shopping online, instead of going to physical stores.
>Our health and weight issues that are nearly 40 years longSure, but it didn't actually become a thing until the past decade or so. Transfats, sugars, etc were much more common and LEGAL decades before without seeing those high increases in fatty fat fatso stats that are so common today.
>That was around in the past too, shutins and all that are not that uncommon in the history booksSure, but the internet has actually given them a way to actually do shit without ever leaving their mom's BF's basement. They even pretend that socializing online is healthy.
To pretend that people haven't become more asocial is just plain ignorant when so many people are being called addicts toward the internet. We're just replacing too many things with the internet.
