I read about this going viral last night... so maybe the BBC thing is from this.
It's on Dailymail and a few other places
https://i.imgur.com/hejLic5.jpg
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...arents-it.html
I can't say I agree they should have never been invented. They have changed my life in very positive ways. One of the main reasons I got a smartphone was so I didn't have to carry my Japanese pocket dictionary. Those electronic dictionaries were a pain in the butt and still didn't have the full dictionaries that I was accustomed to and cost like $XXX... before US changed to bring your own device/phone payment plans, we used to pay only a subsidy for our phones and so it was incredibly cheap. ($149 iirc). I used to carry a ton of books in school when I was learning and I kept 3-rings where I would open grammar book and write entries. Just flip through. Anyway, once I had access to the web, I had a lot of those resources at the touch of my hand... that made it so much easier to study and respond away from home. And I could actually see the unicode moji on the device since finally those devices were more global, which makes a huge difference when you speak/read multiple languages. Anyway, communications is a very big deal for me... but I never realized really how much until recently.
I'm not the type of person that sits on my phone constantly. I put it in my purse and keep it there as I hate being tethered and am really bad at answering texts quickly or returning calls. I prefer my landline now.
Anyway, I totally get where this kid is coming from... one of the things that came to mind, one time we were invited to hang out with the in-laws and this was after Android had come to the US. They would all be on their phones. I had a phone too, but I would just sit at the table and look around like... yep, this is the future alright.
I was reading about how American families have way too much stuff in their homes and that while the US has X% amount of the children in the world, we buy 40% of the toys... what that means is we don't let our children ever get bored and that follows into adulthood. The thing is, boredom is necessary to nurture creativity and the ability to be inventive... and because we have so many choices now to do those activities, it doesn't force the brain to be innovative with limitations... like in painting, we are intentionally restricted to 2 colors (warm/cold) and have other restrictions with projects... this forces that person to really think, and actually the brain works better this way (with restrictions) is what we learned...
The cluttered lives of middle-class Americans
http://nocommentdiary.com/2018/05/19...ass-americans/ |
