The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is damaging our minds

Re:The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is ... by philwelch on Monday January 08, 2018 @04:26PM (#16100755)

Or does it just seem that way because science and technology have already solved so many problems?

"People get distracted by smartphones" is a problem. But so is, "India doesn't produce enough food to feed its people", and that problem had a technological solution. Climate change will require technological solutions. Energy sustainability will require technological solutions. More diseases have been eradicated through science and technology than through any other mechanism.

I'll take a bunch of distracted teenagers over a bunch of crippled teenagers who barely survived polio any day.

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Re:The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is ... by arca_vorago on Monday January 08, 2018 @06:50PM (#16102104)

I think the main issue these days is a lack of root cause analysis, so solutions tend to be superficial. Of course I'm not referencing things like the polio vaccine, but for the past few years my mantra has been "strike at the root", but after I've waded through the branches to get to a root I look up and see hardly anyone else is there, it gets lonely.

Politics is the perfect example of this in my opinion.

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