[NNagain] science and reading scores peaked in 2009 and 2012

[Dave Taht]

Not that slashdot is a particularly good source, but I do read the atlantic...

https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/12/23/0544206/are-phones-making-the-worlds-students-dumber

In my case I was just on two American planes where absolutely everyone
was on their phone, tablet, or laptop. In one walk to the bathroom at
the back of the plane, in the middle of the afternoon, there were
three conversations going on, about 5% people working, the rest all
watching a different show (not a single shared experience). I sat next
to someone from an VR company that did project management there who
spent the entire trip texting (with TWO phones) over the viasat
service ($15/hr) to dozens and dozens of people. Max time off the
phone was no more than 15 seconds, long enough to open a cracker. She
seemed to never have an internet issue (though with all the
multitasking perhaps the latencies were hidden). I finally got a word
in edgewise on landing... I had great hope she knew what a packet was,
but she didn´t. She grokked "latency", had not heard of bufferbloat.

The new movie Maestro is really excellent, btw. I watched some of it
from between the seats ahead of me, with my head otherwise down trying
to block out all the internet access around me.

While I worry all the more about all we have done to humanity´s
ability to communicate physically and with strangers I wish y'all a
merry christmas and a happy new year, with your families!



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