Re:A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge ...
by mindslight on Saturday October 27, 2018 @04:02PM
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Meh.
I'm actually commenting based on my own experience and perception, not some abstract panic about "the children". I'm obviously typing this from a web browser, with both of us using this site that is not user hostile yet still creates a dopamine procrastination loop. HN specifically has had a noprocrast feature forever, for a quite real reason.
There certainly does appear to be a recent media panic, but unfortunately societal feedback suffers from heavy hysteresis. Is it sensible to dismiss the fallout from Snowden based on the prevailing wisdom of 2010 that most everybody is fine with surveillance? People who actually care say "about time" rather than "no news here".
As technologists, we see through the technicals rather than abstracting them as magic. There has been a very real social change in the past decade whereby computers aren't functioning as people's agents but rather remote agents of companies with their own diverging interests. Ignoring the implications and symptoms of this setup, especially as a trite "every generation has concerns", is just basic ignorance.
I'm actually commenting based on my own experience and perception, not some abstract panic about "the children". I'm obviously typing this from a web browser, with both of us using this site that is not user hostile yet still creates a dopamine procrastination loop. HN specifically has had a noprocrast feature forever, for a quite real reason.
There certainly does appear to be a recent media panic, but unfortunately societal feedback suffers from heavy hysteresis. Is it sensible to dismiss the fallout from Snowden based on the prevailing wisdom of 2010 that most everybody is fine with surveillance? People who actually care say "about time" rather than "no news here".
As technologists, we see through the technicals rather than abstracting them as magic. There has been a very real social change in the past decade whereby computers aren't functioning as people's agents but rather remote agents of companies with their own diverging interests. Ignoring the implications and symptoms of this setup, especially as a trite "every generation has concerns", is just basic ignorance.