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Re:Heavy Screen Time Rewires Young Mouse Brains, for Better ... by shloosh on Saturday November 19, 2016 @02:13PM (#12995065)
The human brain has proved highly adaptable despite the increasing rate of technological evolution over the last several centuries. The important question in my mind is what are we adapting our brains for? If you spend 70% of your waking life watching TV, the skill sets you develop are unlikely to serve you well in any productive domain.
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Re:Heavy Screen Time Rewires Young Mouse Brains, for Better ... by B1FF_PSUVM on Saturday November 19, 2016 @04:22PM (#12995766)
> unlikely to serve you well in any productive domain

Except, perhaps, those guys tasked with watching two dozen security cameras ...

(Somehow, somewhere, somewhen, there may be a job title such as 'video pattern recognition specialist')

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Re:Heavy Screen Time Rewires Young Mouse Brains, for Better ... by happy-go-lucky on Saturday November 19, 2016 @02:38PM (#12995196)
I've the same question in my mind. They say we're still evolving. Maybe. Or, is this an evolution at all?
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