Lately there is a study that “screen time” physically changes the brain of 9-10 year-olds. It’s too early to tell what that meant, but early result from the study determined that children who spend more than two hours of daily screen time score lower on thinking and language tests.
You might fear for the future humanity if we all get collectively dumber, since the only toy kids need these days is an iPad. But future is not what I fear, I fear for me and my present. Those 9-10 year-olds that spend more than 2 hours screen time and with supposedly stunted thinking and speech, that was me, and I am sure it is true for many of my peers.
Not that I recall what I did when I was 9-10 year-old, you know, due to my reduced thinking ability. But back then, you can’t save your game. So if you want to see the ending, most games requires you to do it in one sitting, that often mean many more hours than two.
Highly portable computers may seem a recent development, but electronic games aren’t. People who grow up playing electronic games are now well into the middle age. We can’t lug those cathode ray tube TVs and wired consoles around, but it did not stop us for spending hours on them. If you see any adults that acts like idiots and communicate badly, you can blame those games already.
That said, kids these days seem to get smarter and smarter. I don’t know what to make of it, perhaps due to my reduced thinking ability. On that note, it is possible that they just appear smart to me, you know, assuming that my thinking ability is reduced.
Also I am not posting as much as I wished, perhaps due to my reduced linguistic ability.