The harpoon has been sunk so deeply that it will never be removed, and "responses" like this are mostly for show---a CYA thing---but the situation leaves me shaking my head in disbelief anyway.
The growth of all lifeforms on Earth are affected by their immediate environment. Adaptive evolutionary changes happen instantaneously. The slowness of NET change over long periods only makes evolution LOOK like a gradual process.
We knew that was true with "virtual certainty" for decades, and it was proved as absolute fact thirty years ago.
But, as usual, inconvenient facts are ignored and denied for as long as possible. (In this case, what caused the inconvenience was financial profit.)
What, exactly, am I talking about?
Kids who grew up immersed in digital Everything---and social media in particular---are developmentally unfit (in many cases) to assume roles in a society that was created by people who didn't grow up that way.
So much so that hazard warnings are now---finally---being sought by the highest level government public health regulators:
Tobacco-like warning label for social media sought by US surgeon general who asks Congress to act - https://apnews.com/article/surgeon-general-social-media-mental-health-df321c791493863001754401676f165c
Why not sooner? What's Apple worth now, three trillion dollars? Microsoft? Also three trillion. Amazon? Two trillion. That's why. When those guys get Big Mad, political heads roll. Which means the problem is now considered significant enough that the politicos are past worrying about what Big Tech thinks.
The growth of all lifeforms on Earth are affected by their immediate environment. Adaptive evolutionary changes happen instantaneously. The slowness of NET change over long periods only makes evolution LOOK like a gradual process.
We knew that was true with "virtual certainty" for decades, and it was proved as absolute fact thirty years ago.
But, as usual, inconvenient facts are ignored and denied for as long as possible. (In this case, what caused the inconvenience was financial profit.)
What, exactly, am I talking about?
Kids who grew up immersed in digital Everything---and social media in particular---are developmentally unfit (in many cases) to assume roles in a society that was created by people who didn't grow up that way.
So much so that hazard warnings are now---finally---being sought by the highest level government public health regulators:
Tobacco-like warning label for social media sought by US surgeon general who asks Congress to act - https://apnews.com/article/surgeon-general-social-media-mental-health-df321c791493863001754401676f165c
Why not sooner? What's Apple worth now, three trillion dollars? Microsoft? Also three trillion. Amazon? Two trillion. That's why. When those guys get Big Mad, political heads roll. Which means the problem is now considered significant enough that the politicos are past worrying about what Big Tech thinks.
