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I am reading Antifragile by Nassim Taleb, and one of his points is that much of invention happens either out of necessity or outside of structure vs traditional

I am reading Antifragile by Nassim Taleb, and one of his points is that much of invention happens either out of necessity or outside of structure vs traditional R&D / Academia. I was wondering how much social media filling in all spare time keeps people from tinkering and inventing and making progress. Though, I suspect the tinkers are still spending a lot of time tinkering - and only the people who have nothing better to do are spending most of their time on social media.

adg001 4y ago
There is a line of research according to which social media create addiction [0]. When we are addicted to social media, we have less and less time for tinkering and pushing the envelope, because a sizeable part of our time is claimed by such media. [0] Griffiths, M. D. (2012). Facebook addiction: Concerns, criticism, and recommendations: A response to Andreassen and colleagues. Psychological Reports, 110, 518–520. https://doi.org/10.2466/01.07.18.PR0.110.2.518-520 https://doi.org/10.2466/01.07.18.PR0.110.2.518-520