Butcherer79 points us to the latest voice in the Twitter-is-poisoning-our-children-or something Chorus: the major neuro-physiologist Baroness Susan Greenfield, who came with a company yeah-it-is-totally-I-bet Attitude. If it 'sa more appropriate name for a Luddite as arrogant "Baroness Greenfield" I haven' t heard it, and that too with their condescending proclamations combination makes it difficult to take seriously their thoughts on Twitter:

"What concerns me is the banality of so much that goes on Twitter Why would anyone be interested in what someone else has had for breakfast ... It reminds me of a young child (say).? 'Look at me Mummy, I 'm \ to do this', do 'Look at me mama I' m sure that "... It 's almost as if they' re in a kind of identity crisis. In a sense it is to keep the brain in a kind of time warp. "

It seems like every time we think that "what you had for breakfast" hydra is slain, is another rising main. Anyone who still thinks like "banality" is clearly defined its assessment on Twitter bitter third-hand descriptions around the water cooler to run or, in this case, the House of Lords. The statement is reminiscent of the last year it after noting that video games, and "fast-paced TV shows" were also a factor:

'We know, like little babies constant knowledge that they must exist, "she told the Mail yesterday. "My fear is that these technologies infantilising the brain into a state of little children who are attracted by bright lights and buzzing noises, which have a short attention span and live for the moment."

That 's what really needs with the Baroness problem: the way modern technology is "rewiring" our brain and cognitive change basic patterns. It 's not alone, of course: Techdirt recently covered a different set of claims about our "rewired" brain, and the media loves these stories.

While it is undoubtedly true that our brains the way we communicate (using the word "ReWire" is misleading at best), the error in all these arguments the assumption that this is somehow bad or even unusual. Customize the whole history of progress involved a changing focus on different skills. The Baroness made this point very well even if they think they had the support of their own position seemed:

'I often wonder whether real conversation in real time may finally pave the way for this disinfected and simple screen dialogue, has to eat in the same way as the killing, skinning and cutting up an animal is replaced by the convenience of the packages of meat on the been a supermarket shelf. '

I think from this we can begin to understand a little better. In their world, the digital communication is a distraction from real life, you know how Supermarkets . One wonders whether they are working by electric light and shits out the window to avoid. And you know what? It can also be a valid psychological or perhaps even neurological argument for the people again and again be in touch with their roots, but while I 'm sure it' s lots of fun, to entertain these arguments, most of us don 't have that luxury.

Baroness Greenfield is of course no stranger to hyperbole. She made headlines in September last year, when in a stunning display of ironic exaggeration wrongheaded, it Stephen Hawking compared to The Taliban for denying the existence of God (don 't bother to find out how that makes sense). In the meantime, her crusade against the-kids-these-days for years in 2006 she wrote an open letter to the Telegraph on the subject of other techno-Panicker Sue Palmer wrote, and also decided to issue a check All -Party Group in the House of Lords. It consisted of himself and "Three former education secretaries, Baroness Williams, Baroness Shephard and Baroness Morris" -A list of names that would sound encouraging at a fetish party as a group for research into new technologies.

The Baroness is no doubt a skilled neurophysiologist, but she seems to be drawing bold and broad sociological conclusions based more on instinct than evidence. Worse still, she apparently takes it as granted that any changes are bad, as if the dynamic nature of our identity and our relationship with our environment is not the Nature to be alive. I 'm always philosophically, I know, but maybe a little fresh philosophy is exactly what put Baroness Greenfield needs, it seems to have remained in the past.

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