Reading books chronically understimulates the senses. Unlike the longstanding tradition of gameplaying—which engages the child in a vivid, three-dimensional world filled with moving images and musical sound-scapes, navigated and controlled with complex muscular movements—books are simply a barren string of words on the page. . . .
Books are also tragically isolating. While games have for many years engaged the young in complex social relationships with their peers, building and exploring worlds together, books force the child to sequester him or herself in a quiet space, shut off from interaction with other children. . . .
But perhaps the most dangerous property of these books is the fact that they follow a fixed linear path. You can’t control their narratives in any fashion—you simply sit back and have the story dictated to you. . . . This risks instilling a general passivity in our children, making them feel as though they’re powerless to change their circumstances. Reading is not an active, participatory process; it’s a submissive one.
Books are also tragically isolating. While games have for many years engaged the young in complex social relationships with their peers, building and exploring worlds together, books force the child to sequester him or herself in a quiet space, shut off from interaction with other children. . . .
But perhaps the most dangerous property of these books is the fact that they follow a fixed linear path. You can’t control their narratives in any fashion—you simply sit back and have the story dictated to you. . . . This risks instilling a general passivity in our children, making them feel as though they’re powerless to change their circumstances. Reading is not an active, participatory process; it’s a submissive one.
This is sort of a joke, but sort of not.
Also, I think the critic is right on point when he is talking about different kinds of intelligence and how they interplay.
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1) С телевидением - перепутаны курица и яйцо. Не более сложные программы делают людей "умнее", а более "умные" люди требуют более сложных программ. Все примеры, которые приводятся в статье - программы для взрослых, когда мозг уже выращен. Сравнил бы он мультики, было бы более релевантно.
2) У меня от чтения статьи сложилось первое впечатление, что автор книги объясняет рост IQ поп-культурой, в частности, игрушками. Я уже начал писать гневный пост, потом внимательно перечитал. Естественно, автор книги ни на что подобное не претендует, и весь первый абзац - домыслы автора статьи. Иначе было бы очень трудно объяснить, как игра в GTA ("Twenty years ago, games like Tetris or Pac-Man were simple exercises in motor coördination and pattern recognition. Today’s games belong to another realm.") является доказательством того, что "Twenty years ago, a political philosopher named James Flynn uncovered a curious fact. Americans—at least, as measured by I.Q. tests—were getting smarter."
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2. Средний IQ рос весь XX век, и скорее это связано с более доступным образованием, чем с иными факторами. Опять же, эксперименты etc.