Are Smart Phones Creating Dumb People?

David777 said:
Human beings are social Earth creatures with much recent brain structure evolved for interpersonal communication and actions, both verbal and non-verbal. Recent science has shown humans begin life with a vast neocortex structure of 300 million pattern recognizers needing to be filled and meaningfully wired. Not regularly experiencing those interpersonal interactions in ways humans evolved leaves a poorly filled brain without adequately wired dendritic connections.
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I am wondering if the cell phone communicating fulfills those dendritic connections. Why not? If we think we are connecting to others that must be this area of the brain you describe.?
 
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If I had done that back in the day, I would have probably gone ballistic and jumped back in to save the car somehow because it'd be either that or my dad killing me later.
 
Alligatorob said:
When I started college we were still using slide rules. When the first calculators appeared there was a lot of resistance, one big concern was that students would become dumber, just relying on electronics to do the calculations. I finally got rid of my slide rule a few years ago, anyone here still use one?

I suspect all technological advances have been greeted with skepticism. It takes a generation or two for the full effects to be seen. I am of the pre-smart phone generation. Dumb and unsophisticated, and will probably die that way. Doesn't mean the smart phones are bad, who knows on that one. But so long as we don't run out of silica or electricity good or bad they are here to stay, until the next big advance comes along anyway. Typed and posted from my 20th century computer keyboard...
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Haven't used mine in years but I think it's sill in a box in the cellar.
 
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