PRess history
Here are some selection of items before the Play Station!:
The older generation warns against a new technology and bemoans that society is abandoning the "wholesome" media it grew up with, seemingly unaware that this same technology was considered to be harmful when first introduced.
Socrates famously warned against writing because it would "create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories."
An 1883 article in the weekly medical journal the Sanitarian argued that schools "exhaust the children's brains and nervous systems with complex and multiple studies, and ruin their bodies by protracted imprisonment.
When radio arrived, we discovered yet another scourge of the young: The wireless was accused of distracting children from reading and diminishing performance in school.
The television caused widespread concern as well: "about how television might hurt radio, conversation, reading, and the patterns of family living"
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