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Comment author: VoiceOfRa 18 August 2015 06:24:38AM 3 points [-]

And advance into; some video games have been beneficial.

That's not what I asked.

I asked whether they in general have been beneficial.

Comment author: Elo 18 August 2015 07:03:13AM 0 points [-]

Videogames are hard to say. There is a net complex situation.

Take the food example. Technology has enabled food to improve. Easy to say.

Comment author: VoiceOfRa 19 August 2015 04:55:29AM 2 points [-]

Take the food example. Technology has enabled food to improve.

And has the presence of food based superstimuli, a.k.a., junk food, improved to worsened our diets?

Comment author: Elo 19 August 2015 07:16:10AM 0 points [-]

Technology has improved our food and our diets.

Thanks to advancements we now have sustainable food, security of food availability. Heck! People have enough substitutes to meat to not need to eat it ever!

Yes the availability of junk food has caused some people to eat unhealthily; but the availability of vegetables has helped many more people to eat healthily and have fulfilling eating lives.

Comment author: David_Bolin 19 August 2015 01:34:39PM -1 points [-]

Technology frequently improves some things while making other things worse. But sooner or later people find a way to improve both the some things and the other things. In this particular case, maybe they haven't found it yet.