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| Andy Burns to Adrian Caspersz |
| Re: Under 40's Declining Memory |
| 17 Nov 25 10:18:21 |
From: usenet@andyburns.uk Adrian Caspersz wrote: > Stefan Ram wrote: > >> Ben Collver wrote or quoted: >> >>> Has social media engineered the collapse of the human mind? >> >> Already in the 70s, we had a band named "Devo", who believed >> mankind had begun to regress. >> >> But to be sure that social media are the culprit, it might >> help to look specifically for young people who do not use >> them (if such people can be found) and then to look whether >> they really fare better in tests. > > It's listening to pop music that does it. In the same way that pocket calculators killed mental arithmetic in the 70s, I would look at whether it's search engines, rather than social media which are/have killed memory ... --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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