Someone would argue that humans still haven't adapted to smartphones or the internet post-connected world and that constant connectivity is a cancer that's destroying our minds, emotions and civilization at large.
>We were way better off before smartphones. Looking back on it now, we may have been even better off before the Internet.
Not to contradict myself, but I have to disagree.
Smartphones and the internet have improved the quality of life for a significant fraction of humanity. Given the choice between going back to a pre-internet technological paradigm of landline phones and total corporate control over media and communication, or somehow learning to deal with opening Pandora's box, I'll take the latter.
You really believe smartphones were invented right after landline? Even at the time of landline internet was more free from corporate control than today.
It’s the easiest thing ever. Just look around to people, or use a smartphone yourself. It’s hard to see if you are too addicted to the amusement matrix to see it though. In that case just read the recent research of Jonathan Haidt.
Quite frankly, he looks like everything I would expect from a pop psychologist attached to a business school. The Hetrodox Academy he founded has this criticism:
"According to Vox's Zack Beauchamp, Heterodox Academy advances conservative viewpoints on college campuses by playing into or presenting the argument that such views are suppressed by left-wing bias or political correctness. Commenators such as Beauchamp and Chris Quintana, writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education, have disputed Heterodox Academy's contention that college campuses are facing a "free-speech crisis," noting the lack of data to support it and arguing that advocacy groups such as Heterodox Academy functionally do more to narrow the scope of academic debates than any of the biases they allege."
Seems like someone whose success is supported, and views are amplified because they conveniently align to people with money.
My primary point was you shouldn’t need research to know that we aren’t well adapted. Just look at yourself! I myself have heart problems, severe myopia, occasional brain fog and attention deficit at age 18! I’m not well adapted. No one is.
