It is! The german translation of to comprehend is begreifen (and it means experiencing and understanding by touching it). This is the way our brain models the reality. Having all these sensor experiences triggers the development in these important early years of the brain.
Marshall McLuhan’s “The medium is the message” applies to
all media — as books, too, are a medium (and, upon development of the Gutenberg press, was incredibly disruptive in ways few then could have foreseen).
The German word,
begreifen, if we’re talking about English vernacular, is to
grok something — that is, to truly comprehend and know it, inside and outside, whether the “it” is a device, an idea, a system, and/or a blend of all these.
The truth is, Ausdauersportier, few to none of us reading this forum today, early July 2023, is young enough to speak experientially on — or know how — the disruption of glass interfaces and online media will shape the adult minds of tomorrow.
That’s because most of us were raised before the disruption at hand arrived — whether we’re discussing the internet, the personal computer, and/or the glass UI. I may be able to make a solid case argument that monetization, micro-transactions, and free-to-play schemes were and will always be mistakes, especially as they intersect with internet-based tech and media, but in the end, I have no control over this, nor do I have the control to shield it entirely from a kid growing up — not even my own.
I would rather let the first and subsequent generations to grow up with this omnipresent in their lives to reach an age of reflection and to argue the merit of whether having digital media — even if their parents did a good job of limiting commercial, advertised, monetized media — was and/or is an inherent good.
I
will say that having access to so much more information at one’s fingertips has and does have a positive impact on the people I know personally who are now in the twenties and early thirties — who, for example, have access to maybe 80 or 90 per cent of all recorded pop and classical music within digital reach of a routine search query and, often to my surprise, know the songs I did from 30 or 35 years ago, which never, ever saw the light of commercialized consumption (i.e., major label promotions, radio and music television play [oh, hey, more disruptive mediums!], and so on) in their day.
You cannot comprehend the real world when you lack the basic understanding of the device in front of you just making noises and pictures like a TV. There is no feedback, no form to touch, no edge, no surfaces. It is a cheap stupid simulation which makes parents believe they can delegate their work to a device and some software.
I’m going to wait and see what the next generation has to say about this once they reach the age of no longer being infantilized and treated as non-reflective, non-introspective people with world views shaped by their own experiences. The rest of what you write here sounds an awful lot like, “old man shouts at cloud, story on page 5 of the…
newspaper” [hahaha whoops, another disruptive medium, one full of adverts, oh darn!]
Wasting time in front of a stupid program is no replacement for time spent with parents answering questions about the world outside.
For the love of everything joyous, just staaaaaaahp. 🤦♀️
Ask an expert on neuro science how human learning really works or better look it up yourself before coming up with such cheap claims.
I’m soliciting all cogsci and neurosci scholars and researchers to hop into this really nuanced discussion.
But it is your child. My are already grown up without such nuisance and finished high school before 2009.
You sure do have a lot of opinions backed by little more than reflexive conjecture and a “concern” for other people’s kids. Not a good look. Your opinions here are off-topic, and they were also not solicited by the original poster (unless, of course, you happen to be a cogsci and/or neuroscientist with a bibliography of topical field research papers we ought to be poring over in our spare time, in which case,
I solicited them just a moment ago).
