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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Attention and awareness of the ways in which modern technology is harming ourselves.

We're providing people with the electronic equivalent of heroin, from a young age, completely rewiring our brains and detaching us from nature and each other.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The statistic that ~90% of American teens own an iPhone was shocking to me. It makes me think that from a young age, children are taught not to question but just accept their cage. If closed source is all they grow up with, opensource will be foreign to them. And that in a way that's worse than when you grow up with windows which doesn't completely lock you in.

[–] AA5B 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m not surprised that 90% have a phone, but am surprised that’s specific to iPhone Where are you you Android people at?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Android users aren't having kids. /s

[–] fuck_u_spez_in_particular 4 points 1 year ago

This! I feel it myself, my ADHD was much better when I stayed in a relatively natural setting with only little technology. for a few weeks (I did some programming there though, and boy was I focused in complex problems without medication etc. had one of my best coding sessions there I think). I'm pretty sure that a lot of ADHD but also other psychiatric issues like autism or social anxiety etc. that is diagnosed these days is because of all this unhealthy environment we have created. Or in other words, our modern technology promotes psychiatric issues such as ADHD, autism, social anxiety etc.