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FBL98: Jean Twenge - How Generations Are Shaped By Technology

The Feedback Loop by Singularity

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The Cost of Generational Knowledge Transfer

"I can't help but think right now we have this massive amount of animosity between generations and even isolation or alienation from one another," he says. "There's tons of studies on that social comparison and social comparison is pretty bad online as a general rule." The only way to learn something in hunter-gatherer society, how do young people learn things? That's it. So knowledge has to be generated from older to younger with information technology,. We got the printing press and that already then started to break down. And then I think with user-generated content, that's when it's almost a complete breakdown because it used to be".

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