Comment on Turns out that technology is NOT harmful to kids
joe@lemmy.world 1 year agoIt’s the point Douglas Adams was making with this quote:
I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
- Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
- Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
- Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
This is exactly how these moral panics go. It’s always relatively to the world the person grew up in.