Talk:Parents Against Underage Smartphones

So are smartphones the latest in a long line of 'juvenile brainwarp promoting activity' - assorted cartoons (film and book), 'music that adults describe as a racket', video games, penny dreadfuls, the trains the school masters of Eton did not wish to go anywhere near Windsor for fear the pupils would escape and go to interesting places on etc 'back until the first juveniles said they would rather throw acorns at a target and recite nonsensical ditties on than sweep out the cave'? Anna Livia (talk) 18:26, 20 September 2017 (UTC)


 * According to right-wingers who's anti-technology, yes. And they might consider smartphones as a conspiracy. -- Bryan See (talk) 19:21, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I am guessing as to the acorn game - but there have always been complaints about 'what juveniles/young adults find entertaining instead of the improving activity they #should# be doing' (would add 'playing football rather than practicing archery' to the list: and no doubt there are many more).
 * There is some case for encouraging 'young persons' (and indeed persons of all ages) to get involved in a wide range of activities - and was the child in question showing age-appropriate but dad-viewing-inappropriate curiosity? Anna Livia (talk) 16:12, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Smartphones are fine, it's the people using them that are bad. ikanreed 🐐Bleat at me 20:36, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
 * 'Some of' the people using them, 'some of' the time - and 'some of the material' on the phones.
 * What should the relationship between the user's IQ and the number of megabits of smartphone storage be? Anna Livia (talk) 22:26, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Probably limited and dominated by covariates like wealth? IQ isn't "smart" and we should stop treating it that way.  Smartphones make people dumb in ways entirely unrelated to fluid intelligence.  ikanreed 🐐Bleat at me 15:40, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Does this suit well with Donald Trump's views on technology, especially with regards to the "age of computer"? And how does it help Russian President Vladimir Putin? -- Bryan See (talk) 07:55, 1 October 2017 (UTC)