Some commentary on it from Ted Gioia’s newsletter. (Great newsletter, by the way.)
I’m dumbfounded when I hear ‘experts’ claim that phones are not the problem. Like tobacco companies—whose hired experts long denied the connection between smoking and cancer—they say that “correlation does not prove causation.”
But that’s just sophistry and spin.
Microsoft researchers recently published a study showing that excessive use of new tech leads to a “deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved.”
Theses innovations “deprive the user of the routine opportunities to practice their judgement and strengthen their cognitive musculature, leaving them atrophied and unprepared.”
Facebook did similar research, with similarly frightening results—and they worked hard to bury the results. We weren’t supposed to see the charts below. But a brave whistleblower took photos and leaked them to the Wall Street Journal .