>How's technology to blame for helicopter parenting, fear of terrorism and crime in general, the notion there seemingly is a nonce behind every street corner and similarly irrational ideas and behaviours rampant today?
It seems obvious that this is the result of fear mongering-profiteering in the news media.
Which is something that has existed for a long time and long before 1969 and the advent of modern news media or social media. News has always been about entertainment as well as information. Otherwise there wouldn't have been any newspapers and we'd all be reading Reuters or AFP.
Instead of superficially blaming technology for our failings we had better find out what the actual causes of these failings are and remedy those.
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> In 1969, at the age of 9, I could be left to play with my friends and wander several miles from home without any sense of danger.
How's technology to blame for helicopter parenting, fear of terrorism and crime in general, the notion there seemingly is a nonce behind every street corner and similarly irrational ideas and behaviours rampant today?
While social media does its share to exacerbate these fears and overly cautious behaviour so does TV and other more traditional media.
The underlying cause isn't technology but what we allow others to do to us with it.