PeterMollenburg wrote:aokoye wrote:I also find the whole thing ironic given that this is being asked and the original blog post was written via social networking (yes I would consider a forum a social network)/new media.
I always find such arguments thin. Would this not mean that an alcoholic should not give advice regarding alcohol consumption, a fat overweight person should not give advice on nutrition, or a drug addict on drug addiction etc etc. Sometimes those people who have dealth with the extremes or lived through the troubles in one particular area of life and are possibly still going through them are the best to provide advice. If we should not discuss technology being potentially negative for us, none of us would be able to comment.
The problem with your argument is that an alcoholic, drug addict, etc isn't getting any health benefit from their addiction (outside of some seriously maladaptive coping mechanisms which aren't comparable to this). Never mind that I don't actually think we are too dependent on technology. I don't think it makes us uncreative, I think the "our memory is lacking because of it" is a poor argument, and so on.