https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/30/ipad_kids_are_more_anxious/?td=rt-3a 'A group of Singaporean researchers who studied a cohort of 168 children for more than a decade found that those exposed to screens in infancy (before two years of age) showed accelerated maturation of brain networks involved in visual processing and cognitive control. That faster specialization, the researchers suggest, was associated with slower decision-making in childhood, and in turn, higher anxiety symptoms in adolescence. "During normal development, brain networks gradually become more specialised over time," according to the study's lead author Dr. Huang Pei. "However, in children with high screen exposure, the networks controlling vision and cognition specialised faster, before they had developed the efficient connections needed for complex thinking." The result, Huang said, is limited brain flexibility and mental resilience, leaving children less adaptable later in life, as evidenced by higher anxiety scores in cohort kids who had more screen time before age 2. '
Wise words indeed although I can’t help feeling that things were so much simpler in the old days We were told we’d get square eyes if you sat too long in front of the television, to counterbalance this and generally improve your eyesight eating carrots was recognised and the trusted remedy
Anyway there are all number of examples where you have to learn to use a faculty at the right time. Visual systems for example. Besides whatever way we've fucked up a generation, I suspect the only options for government we'll have from now on are either, by extreme authoritarian, or by internet conspiracy theory-led (which means by Russia, China and North Korea leading the United States, who think they're running the show, and who the majority of the rest of the world slavishly emulate). In short we're fucked and I'm glad I won't see it.
Are we not already there with an ahem well known phone app easily accessible to children churning out child porn?
