Interview via Legalise Freedom
While some of the unwanted side effects of technology are recognised and well-known, are we too quick to dismiss them as a temporary phase affecting a lonely minority?The advocates of 21st Century technology themselves are quick to point to an array of benefits, many undeniable, but at what point does our second life take over our real life, social media become anti-social? In our headlong rush towards techno-utopia, are we inadvertently breeding a generation of alienated, dysfunctional loners paralysed by endless choice and lost in a fantasy world of gaming, pornography, and all manner of virtual reality? Delving into the dark side of this brave new world, we examine the dangers of technological addiction and abuse, the debilitating psychological and physical fallout, and the potential to affect even the evolutionary future of the human race itself.
I thought this an excellent interview. Must listen stuff. Much food for thought Dr. Mari Swingle discusses her book i-Minds: How Cell Phones, Computers, Gaming, and Social Media are Changing Our Brains, Our Behaviour, and the Evolution of Our Species.00:00/81:21 Download (74.5MB) Give it a listen and share some rational, sentient, comments While I enjoy my blog and the ability to communicate with others via this resource- Sadly, the many negatives inherent in this type of technology are glaringly obvious. Not growing up with this technology gave me a much more real world basis for real life, that I find vastly more enjoyable Virtual reality is NOT reality. It is little more then an extremely limiting cheap imitation of actual physical life on the planet.The immersion in technology and the lack of real world experiences is how nonsense such as the 'conceptual penis' and 'gender studies' can be sold as reality. Being groomed for exploitation by the elite psychopaths doesn't have any appeal to me.I will be putting up another interview today regarding how the education system manipulates the minds of youth, prepping them to believe harmful, destructive nonsense. Making them less then human. Prepping for the borg mind. Yup, that's how I see it. Protect your kids, seriously.I had to do it when our child was in elementary school... From the crap being taught even then.Retarded reading techniques and nonsensical mathematics.UPDATE: Mari speaks in the interview about the Baby Einstein scam - Disney, of course!Baby Einsteins: Not so smart after all, In fact dumber then other babies
In the latest study on the effects of popular videos such as the "Baby Einstein" and "Brainy Baby" series, researchers find that these products may be doing more harm than good. And they may actually delay language development in toddlers.
Led by Frederick Zimmerman and Dr. Dimitri Christakis, both at the University of Washington, the research team found that with every hour per day spent watching baby DVDs and videos, infants learned six to eight fewer new vocabulary words than babies who never watched the videos.
These products had the strongest detrimental effect on babies 8 to 16 months old, the age at which language skills are starting to form. "The more videos they watched, the fewer words they knew," says Christakis. "These babies scored about 10% lower on language skills than infants who had not watched these videos."
Screen time clearly has a dumbing down effect from the get go-The accompanying interview is now posted:
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