> It's a trope to say that our "best minds are working on ads".
"The last generation was better because they read _books_ and had _discipline_ and didn't waste their time on frivolous garbage" is also a trope.
"The last generation was better because they read _books_ and had _discipline_ and didn't waste their time on frivolous garbage" is also a trope.
People having been saying "this next generation is inferior to the last one" since the ancient Greeks. If that was consistently true we would already be in an Idiocracy scenario.
Been on Twitter, Facebook, or Hacker News lately ?
More seriously, I really fear this kind of stuff is, to some extend, new : https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/dopamine-smartphones...
(Although, maybe it's comparable to the "opium epidemics" of the 1800s ?)
Ironically, I should stop having this kind of conversation... On social network.