You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™
The drug like grip computers have on the human race. They manage our days and control our lives.
Computers entertain us, they instantaneously send our thoughts, and immediately down-load our fantasies.
Entertainment. Information. Data storage. Communication.
What would we do without computers? Could we continue? Or like the dinosaur, would we become a bug splat on the interstellar windshield of time.
Without computers would our brains cease working? Or like a crack addict would we begin to go through techno-withdrawls. Would compu-addicts check into seedy 25 dollar motels, crawl under the covers and sweat through the pain?
DATELINE: Planet Earth
A suprising new study reveals computers can actually diminish reading and maths skills in children.
According to the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research, the survey of more than half a million children showed technology is counter-productive in improving student achievement.
Study co-author Professor Jacob Vigdor claims home computer access is damaging because students are easily distracted and end up using their time to socialize and play games.
When computers first emerged, it was believed that getting children on line at an early age would create a society of Einstein like super freaks who would decipher the riddle of nuclear fission during recess.
“Students who gain access to a home computer between 5th and 8th grade tend to witness a persistent decline in reading and math test scores,” Vigdor said.
Computers today remind me of Coca Cola in the late 1800’s.
2 centuries ago, cocaine wasn’t just a drug, it was a miracle product, like the computer is today.
Coca-Cola was invented in 1885 and part of its secret ingredient was cocaine. No wonder consumers drank Coke and had a smile.
Coca-cola had to take the cocaine out of coke in the early 1900’s because people were becoming addicted. There’s no drug to take out of a computer, but the addiction factor of this miracle product is very much the same.
When we first started using computers, we walked away from the digital drug store feeling euphoria.
But now, in a new millennium where we mainline information directly into our cerebral cortex, we have become compu-junkies.
Don’t think so. Ask CrackBerry users about their “withdrawls” when their PDA’s went silent a few months ago.
Sure kids can play World of WarCraft against some naked slob in Slovenia, but can children reason as well as their grandparents? Can children read a report and assimilate that information as efficiently as their mom and dad? Can the child of tomorrow even tabulate 18% tip at a restaurant in their head?
This is only 1 study, but it does raise some concerns.
Researchers analyzed administrative data for more than 500,000 5th to 8th graders (children aged between 10 and 14) from North Carolina.
The study says that if parents are involved and monitor their children’s computer use then computers can be beneficial. The problem is, the parents are all ready computer crack heads. It’s like the blind leading the blind to a cliff of diminishing brain capacity.
Prophets talk about Armageddon coming in the form of an asteroid crashing into the Earth, or nuclear war, or an ice age of global proportions.
Perhaps our dependence on computers today is the begining of a modern day ice age.
Think about it?
That is if you’re not too busy dowloading porn and playing video games.
And that is crazy.