Does watching TV make us dumber? Video games? Questions like this don't have an answer but can be an interesting discussion. I guess I consider emacs ad IDE (o

Does watching TV make us dumber? Video games? Questions like this don't have an answer but can be an interesting discussion. I guess I consider emacs ad IDE (or at the very least toolkit to build a personalised IDE). What about smalltalk? I don't think most would think of that as "dumbing things down" yet it really invented all the good things that IDEs have ?