From: wasbit@REMOVEhotmail.com   
      
   On 17/11/2025 10:18, Andy Burns wrote:   
   > 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 ...   
   >   
      
   I used to know practically every phone number I needed. Now I have to   
   look up my own.   
      
      
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   wasbit   
      
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