"Technology" is such a broad term. I think it's reasonable to say that social media _likely_ harms our brains. But there's so much more to technology than socia

"Technology" is such a broad term. I think it's reasonable to say that social media _likely_ harms our brains. But there's so much more to technology than social media. Technology makes it so that anyone can create anything, and creating things is the epitome "making the brain work" in my opinion. If you want to create art, you no longer need to buy canvas/paint/pens/whatever, same with music and many other things that technology has lowered the barrier too. There are so many video games that make your brain work. Not most of the garbage on mobile, but "real" games (for a lack of a better word). Even if it's not explicitly a puzzle game, any sufficiently difficult game forces you to practice and be patient to beat it. When you finally master it, you get that great delayed dopamine hit. I'm pretty sure the reason I can sit for hours and bash my head against a difficult problem/bug is because I spent my youth failing at video games for hours. tl;dr yes, some aspects of technology are bad. The solution isn't to blame technology, but to discourage the harmful parts of it and encourage the positive aspects of it.