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Maybe my brain has been fried by spending too much time on Hacker News, but isn't there an 'it is' missing from the title? 'Tests clearly show that a switched-
by baha_man 18y ago
Maybe my brain has been fried by spending too much time on Hacker News, but isn't there an 'it is' missing from the title?
'Tests clearly show that a switched-on television reduces the quality and quantity of interaction between children and their parents. The internet multiplies the effect a thousandfold.'
If you've got scientific evidence to back up your claims, please link to it. I'd like to know what the SI unit for parent/child interaction is.
I don't like the article much, but has anyone read the book he refers to?
- khafra 18y agoI, for one, would talk to my parents a lot more if they were on IRC.
- unalone 18y agoYou say that now. But my mother got Google Talk a little while ago when she was trying to figure out how to use various "web 2.0" sites to stay "with it" and it was frustrating. I kept wishing it was morally acceptable for me to fix her n00bspeak.
- Zev 18y agoI thought that as well - that i would talk to my parents more if they spoke via AIM/MSN/IRC. Then they actually got onto AIM and started talking. And I started calling them up (if at college) or going into the other room (if during break).