cks you designed to be ~exotic~ or whatever, and those rabid jerks at Disney can only grit their teeth now!
Nov
9th
2015
On socialization · 8:27pm Nov 9th, 2015
Ah, yes, and as we all know comic books turn people gay, video-games are all murder simulators, and the movies shall all die due to television just as movies slew their own progenitor, the proud but now lost art of theater...
(FYI, first music video ever if you've never seen it before. Thought it fitting. Think everything but its technical quality has aged quite well, honestly.)
In all seriousness, when the day comes that we're all brains in jars, and the thought-spawn these days are all a' wasting their grokking the newfangled seven-dimensional smell-o-vision I really hope my own neurons aren't so congealed that all I've got to add is: "Back in my day, we could only experience smells four dimensionally, and that was good enough for us!" 
Speaking as someone for whom any pretence at being a young person would provoke hilarity in onlookers, I recall that back in my day other young people were usually the real problem (and perhaps the solution). The older generation were merely background bullshit.
I can't wait to be a cantankerous old coot. I'll still get the 7th dimensional smell-o-vision, but complaining about how it's not as authentic as good old fashioned downloadable memory engrams will be half the fun.
Most of these things are not even really comparable.
Newspapers were read maximum for half an hour, but many use phones almost 24/7.
Xkcd breaks the wind again.
This modern enamoring of smartphones is complex matter. It's unholy amalgam of rampant consumerism, cultivation of acceptance for mass surveillance and inane "culture" of various social media.
By the way, have you seen that it's now "video-games are all murder simulators" 2.0 time?
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Of course not. I might not agree with your opinion, but you'll have to do far worse than—gasp, have one divergent from my own for me to do that.
Personally I sadly don't have much more to add, though. I read the strip more as a commentary on how the newest media is somehow always the vilest thing to grace the Earth.
Who was it, Socrates, I think? That claimed that writing it down kills a thought, and renders those that do so fools that cannot think?
Can't find the actual quote, but something like that. Needless to say, the only reason it is remembered nowadays is that somebody found it interesting enough to write it down.
The reading you had on the other hand is one I reluctantly see some point in. There are those that gets utterly consumed by their online lives to the point that their... well, real life lives suffer, and I really don't have anything to add to that except a sad agreement that its a growing problem we indeed need to think more about.
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Beautiful experiment that always cracks me up. Because it's better to laugh like loon than weep profusely. And, as I remember, it was even experiment with a proper methodology, not some dime-a-dozen sociology/psychology rubbish where representative sample is 46 high school students (and experimentator's cat).
We can't be blamed that progressives step on the same rakes every time. At least we warned them.