Great rant at American Institute for Economic Research:
Don’t Blame Technology, Blame Yourself
An older woman and her middle-aged son were at a public restaurant for Thanksgiving. He spent the whole of the dinner flipping through his phone, without uttering a word. She did her best to maintain her dignity while looking past him and trying to pretend that this is what life is like. This tragic scene lasted until they paid the bill and left.
The scene was relayed to me by a senior in college who explains how her generation is figuring out the right and wrong ways to use new technology, correcting for the errors of their parents, who somehow allowed their lives to be drained by the newness of it all.
Zak Tebbal drew the perfect cartoon for how our relationship to our smartphones has changed over the last 10 years.
Sadly so true - I will be out for a bite to eat or a beer and see couples both on their phones or one and the other one staring out into space. These things have their use but they should not be a constant distraction. What really gets me is seeing kids in a store plugged into their tablet watching cartoons. This is a cheap and effective way to keep little junior quiet but it is having a profound effect on their future mental development.
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