Is technology making teens less creative, and lazy?
— Lear A: Lear, something tells me folks have been feeling the same way for generations. Parents who were used to kids working year-round on the farm probably felt the advent of nine-month public schools made their kids lazy. Parents who saw their kids zipping around in cars probably felt the same. Not to speak of how people felt about TV when I was younger. And, to a certain degree, they might have been right. But as I explained to another chatter, I believe it’s not the technology that makes us lazy or less creative. It’s how we choose to use the technology. Today’s digital advancements offer the opportunity for incredible creativity — or to simply sit in front of a computer monitor punching a button and playing a game. And as for lazy, one of the biggest problems for developers of video games (and people who work in the computer industry in general) is that workers get burned out by industry expectations that they put in 16 to 18-hour workdays. Q: Technology transforms this genera
