Am I entitled, as I see "communicative coincidence" as a central theme of everyday life, to denigrate this extension? No. Of course, the twenty-first generation will neither become stupider nor poorer, and certainly not be more headless and stupid than the generation before it. On the contrary: if we look back at the follies of the Golf generation or uae rcs data the 1968 generation, at the racists and Nazis of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, at the small-state people, the nobles and serfs of the 19th century and their behavior, millennium and an excellent 1920s generation.
As with every extension of our lives, we just have to decide which ones we try out and use: it's all about the amount. One joint a week probably won't do any harm. But fifty joints will. A bottle of red wine at the weekend prolongs and fulfills life; five bottles a day will send you to an earlier grave. Part of living the "ego project" (Roger Schawinski) is having fun and in moderation. Almost a sermon, I know. But, as I see two couples sitting at the next table (in their fifties, I would guess), all four of them hooked on their mobile phone extension, I can also preach in a column like this for the right amount of moderation in mobile phone use.