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Newspapers also destroyed human interactions, before radios, TV, mobile phones and tablets did. http://thefuturebuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/train.jpg h

• kordless 10y ago
  I've never liked this counter argument to screen engagement. Newspapers have a very small footprint of data available to the reader. I'd be willing to bet that photo that is paraded around every time this argument is made was taken shortly after the paperboy came through the car, or the car was just loaded at a station. Within 20 minutes, everyone is going to have set down their paper and moved onto doing something else.
• u_wot_m8 10y ago
  this, alway laugh when people try and act like everybody in the past was conversing with each other on public transport. People haven't changed in the last 50 years.
  • mwfunk 10y ago
    My theory is that most people don't want to have to make small talk with random strangers whose #1 form of entertainment is making small talk with random strangers in public places. Such people have and always will exist, and they will always complain that they can't get people to talk to them/entertain them because for some mysterious reason everyone around them has their nose in a book/newspaper/screen/etc. :)