A long time ago I remember reading about mechanical nano computers as an idea and this got me to look that up again. Apparently that idea is still around and is more prevalent than I expected (though that’s an extremely low bar) e.g. https://www.cnet.com/science/darpa-funds-mechanical-nanocomputer/
Lol, “shrinking attention spans” and worrying about what’s happening to the children is the panic. Start here, maybe check out the books mentioned https://time.com/6958809/smartphones-screen-time-danger-pete-etchells/
Moral panics gonna panic.
Edit: nothing new under the sun.
In 1941, Mary Preston published “Children’s Reactions to Movie Horrors and Radio Crime” in The Journal of Pediatrics. The American pediatrician had studied hundreds of 6- to 16-year-old children and concluded that more than half were severely addicted to radio and movie crime dramas, having given themselves “over to a habit-forming practice very difficult to overcome, no matter how the aftereffects are dreaded”
Read about this and more at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1745691620919372
No, no, no, you must respond with a Wikipedia article.
Also, the first article that you responded to has multiple times when Microsoft did this and you should go actually read it. Don’t need the specific example that you think acts like a counterpoint to think giant tech corps are assholes and will act like it.
But I just moved to opensearch.