Re:Technology is Heroin (2009)
by coldtea on Sunday September 08, 2013 @08:12PM
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>Heroin brought euphoria reading Wikipedia has made me knowledgeable on many diverse subjects
Or rather gave a lot of people a shallow understanding of some topic and a false sense of entitlement to be equal to an expert that actually studied the field in question.
>and those video games might have increased my focus and problem solving skills.
Judging by teaching young people very adept at video games, no it really hasn't. If anything it has destroyed their focus for anything that's not a constant blaze of motion and sound. As for problem solving skills, the only ones that wee boosted was those most alike solving video game problems.
Or rather gave a lot of people a shallow understanding of some topic and a false sense of entitlement to be equal to an expert that actually studied the field in question.
>and those video games might have increased my focus and problem solving skills.
Judging by teaching young people very adept at video games, no it really hasn't. If anything it has destroyed their focus for anything that's not a constant blaze of motion and sound. As for problem solving skills, the only ones that wee boosted was those most alike solving video game problems.