Manfred Spitzer

Manfred Spitzer warnt vor Verblödung der Jugend bei Anne Will: “Schöne neue Arbeitswelt” (30.10.16) (Video)

by

For my German speaking readers.

Related info:

– Apple’s Steve Jobs Didn’t Let His Own Children Use iPads

– Not Only … NZ Pupils Struggling To Speak

– Employees Of Silicon Valley Giants Like Google, Apple, Yahoo And Hewlett-Packard Send Their Children To A Waldorf School

– Toddlers Becoming So Addicted To iPads They Require Therapy

https://youtu.be/lwsPW7w4EMs

31.10.2016
Moderatorin Will hat Mühe, den aufgebrachten Wissenschaftler Spitzer zu bändigen. Dieser verliert völlig die Fassung. Er spricht von „armen Kindern“ und davon, dass Jugendliche erst ab 14 oder 16 Jahren an die digitalen Medien herangeführt werden dürften. Programmieren frühestens ab der achten Klasse. Er sieht schon jetzt viele „seelenlose, willenlose Menschen“, versaut durch Smartphone und Tablet. Lobo und Lindner versuchen, zu widersprechen. Vergeblich. „Sie haben keine Ahnung!“, redet sich der Psychiater weiter in Fahrt. Anne Will versucht es: „Herr Spitzer? Herr Spitzer! Können Sie mich hören?“

Er kann nicht. „Dick, dumm und gewalttätig“ würden Kinder durchs Digitale. Lobo und Lindner versuchen, zu widersprechen. Vergeblich. „Sie haben keine Ahnung!“ Böse Antwort von Christian Lindner: „Sie sind das lebende Beispiel dafür, dass der Verzicht auf digitale Medien nicht zu besseren Umgangsformen führt.“ Es braucht eben nicht jeder Mensch die Digitalisierung, um sozial inkompetent zu sein.

Manfred Spitzer (Psychiater und Leiter der Psychiatrischen Universitätsklinik in Ulm)

* * *

PayPal: Donate in USD
PayPal: Donate in EUR
PayPal: Donate in GBP

Top German Neuroscientist: Brain Development Of Young Children Spending Too Much Time Using A Computer Suffers; Deficits Are Irreversible And Cannot Be Made Up For Later In Life

by

FYI.

– Does The Internet Make You Dumb? Top German Neuroscientist Says Yes – And Forever (Welt, Sep 12, 2012):

BERLIN – Dr. Manfred Spitzer knows that people find his arguments provocative. In his first book, he warned parents of the very real dangers of letting their children spend too much time in front of the TV. Now, in a second book called Digitale Demenz [Digital Dementia], he’s telling them that teaching young kids finger-counting games is much better for them than letting them explore on a laptop.

Spitzer, 54, may be a member of the slide-rule generation that learned multiplication tables by heart, but his work as a neuropsychiatrist has shown him that when young children spend too much time using a computer, their brain development suffers and that the deficits are irreversible and cannot be made up for later in life.

South Korean doctors were the first to describe this phenomenon, and dubbed it digital dementia – whence the title of Spitzer’s book. Simplistically, the message can be summed up this way: the Internet makes you dumb. And it is of course a message that outrages all those who feel utterly comfortable in the digital world. In the aftermath of the publication of Spitzer’s book, they have lost no time venting their wrath across Germany.

Read moreTop German Neuroscientist: Brain Development Of Young Children Spending Too Much Time Using A Computer Suffers; Deficits Are Irreversible And Cannot Be Made Up For Later In Life