TechBuzr
Those of us who fret about the effects that digital technology is having on our brains are sometimes criticised along these lines: “Listen, you curmudgeonly Generation Xer, staring down the barrel of middle age, oldsters like you have always complained about new things corrupting civilisation! Socrates wished writing hadn’t been invented , because people wouldn’t remember things, making them shallower; the printing press was blamed for 16th-century information overload; in the 1930s, grouchy social critics thought radio was rotting […]
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