TV rots our powers of concentration and our society. To what extent is American culture a product of corporate media? The technology is not to blame, but rather how it largely applied as a sales tool. The person who invented the first practical television system said that he had "created a monster" after seeing what it became. He would n…
TV rots our powers of concentration and our society. To what extent is American culture a product of corporate media? The technology is not to blame, but rather how it largely applied as a sales tool. The person who invented the first practical television system said that he had "created a monster" after seeing what it became. He would not let his kids watch it saying it did not want it to be part of their "intellectual diet". That might sound snooty, but Mr. Farnsworth grew up on a remote farm. He likened how one plows a field to the lines one used to see on analog TV screens that converted serial information into a 2D image.
In the 1960s and '70s there was salient public anxiety about commercial media becoming too socially influential. Now we mostly accept it as a fact of life.
Doesn't it remind you of what computer tech designers say? They feel the same about computers, which are way more dangerous than tvs in controlling minds. They collect our personal data and algorithmically control us as consumers and influence thinking and brainwashing politically.—on a massive scale. How many times have you had an offline conversation and afterward, your phone and computer sent you ads for exactly what you had just discussed? It is petrifying. It is also petrifying how many people are addicted to social media and how negative it is for those for all ages to handle so many made-up comparisons with others or the new, vacuous careers as "influencers."
I know how impacted my own mind has been for eight years of trying to fight this wannabe dictator and his bizarre minions. I have not been able to focus well or read books because I know enough history and studied cult leaders and how they form. I was petrified the first time I heard Convict 34+ speak at one of his rallies in 2016. That dominant male persona Immediately reminded me of a baby Hitler in the way he used repetitive brainwashing tactics. I was put in YT jail for stating that online.
Yesterday, I deliciously finished a thick Barbara Kingsolver book and realized how much I enjoy reading FOR FUN, and the craft of a great writer. I owe my returned focus to Joe Biden for agreeing to step down and support Kamala for the next POTUS. We will continue to be in capable hands with her at the helm. At the same time, we need to keep educating ignorance by increasing massive critical thinking skills across this land at home, in schools, and online.
My children were born on the cusp of the 70s. I have never owned a TV. They watched it for two hours at their friends' places after school until I got home from work. Books, ballet, sport, theatre, and we went to the cinema. And music - theirs and mine.
Very similar to our approach in the 70s and 80s: we owned only a small portable tv that we kept in a closet. We put a tv guide with it, and allowed each child to schedule up to four hours of tv per week. Our three children often forgot to watch their scheduled tv for the week. It was very low priority. Of course they occasionally saw tv at friends' houses, but most kids played outside after school and on weekends.
We didn't have a TV in our home in the 50's when I was a kid. By design. We also listened to a wide range of music from Latin records my mom collected to musical theater albums to jazz to classical. I also got classes in ballet, modern dance, drawing, painting, and acting. We also went to kid concerts and theater.
When we did finally get a TV my younger sister and I could only watch while Mom was at work or when she slept in weekend mornings. I read books. I'd like to believe it all made me a critical thinker rather than a mere consumer of advertising-disguised-as-entertainment.
I was born in the late 40’s. My Father didn’t allow a tv in our home. I watched it on occasion while late babysitting.
We had piano, flute, dance lessons, books books books and hiking and conversation with and about nature. Then off to college to become a teacher.
We once rented a tv during the morbid and emotional trauma caused by Kennedy’s assassination.
I chose not to have children, but know that I would not have allowed any screens ( cell phones) in their lives today. That is where I see the saddest development of young and old.
Yes, Jean(Muriel), but do you own a cat? Apparently that's the defining characteristic of women who don't reproduce, whether by choice or by happenstance.
I have two!! Meow meow. Several of my cats over the years lived to be 23 years old. I have been , since a small child, in love with cats. My father loved them too. I love horses too!🐈⬛🐈🐴🦄🎶👏🏻🥰🤣😂
I had more fun building a TV in an electronics course than watching it. Though there were periods of watching a lot with parents, we had several gaps in even having a tv in the house. After the one I built had the flyback transformer fail, we didn't get another until we got a small portable to watch the 1st Space Shuttle Launch. I watched the Apollo 11 moon landing on an even tinier portable at the gas station across he street from my parent's house.
J L, we not only accept the influence of commercial media as a fact of life, but we carry our televisions in our pockets so that we can view the latest “news” from the moment we awake until we go to sleep.
Yes tv rots our brain but I think social media and the internet have done even more damage to society. Practically no one can focus or concentrate for very long, critical thinking is gone, the division and hatred has exploded in the last 10 years or so due to the convicted felon adjudicated rapist using it to spew his hatred everywhere and stir up hatred esp of of minorities and women. Not to mention all the mis and dis information flooding the internet.
Right. In another time, a TV in the living room always turned on in the evening. We thought of nothing else but watching that new media having replaced the radio and FDR Fireside Chats. Screens do inform but too much atrophy’s the brain. Parents made the horrible mistake giving their children cell devises and psychological studies now find the negative effects of this. And worse, social media has damaged young minds for two generations.
I suppose one might call this site social media, but the likes of Facebook seems to me to exploits people at least as much as empower them. I avoid sites that push things at you. Push media makes us passive spectators. There is a place for that, but it can't sustain democracy. Bowing to Mr. "Only I Can Fix It." is exactly what democracy is not. The truth is only we can fix it.
I have used a computer since 1990 for college and then work, Terry. I signed up for social media when it became popular, but I never developed a taste for it; conversations like these are as close as I come. I don't own a TV, but when I did I used it to watch streaming movies. I listen to podcasts or watch them on YouTube. That's how one can sidestep the mis and dis info, algorithmic pandering, etc. Computers don't kill thought, poor education does.
The Internet is much the same phenomenon with new wrinkles. Again, not the technology itself, but how it is dominated. I naively thought that the decentralized architecture of the Internet was inherently democratic, and while I has that capability, as demonstrated here, i was wrong to believe it would resist plutocratic domination. The Internet was created with the public's money by the Department of Defense. For years it was a cooperative DIY environment of monochrome monitors and text only. When Internet multimedia was enabled by Tim Berners-Lee at the CERN particle physics laboratory, the World Wide Web exploded, as, content -wise, a DYI phenomenon. Now commercialization and political propaganda dominates the medium. I should have known that the outcomes of ANY technology depends on who is using it and for what purpose.
TVs are best for entertainment. Ours is black all day long. One hour of news, maybe. Then later, a movie, perhaps. Unless I turn on the ROKU fish tank screensaver. I like how the eel slides in and out of his cave. I am tempted to name him you know what...but perhaps not. I respect eels too much.
Bill, we just cut Comcast cable and now have an antenna which picks up the local stations we want as we do watch an hour of news and sometimes Masterpiece on PBS. We also have a couple options for TV sports because Comcast can't reach an agreement with the Big Ten where Oregon now resides. Other than that, we stream and enjoy productions that, by and large, are not filmed here. We both read voraciously.
Unfortunately a lot of people's (especially the young's) time is predominantly the computer, ipad or phone. Questions don't have to be asked or remembered - "How many yards in a mile? Strike if you looked it up. No need for formal "knowledge any more - or thinking. Google will tell you all. You don't even have to think. . . or question. It's all really easy
What's wrong with looking up an answer to something you're curious about, Lady Emsworth? I absolutely agree that it's great to have relevant data stored in one's natural memory (vs. RAM), but as a nearly 77-year old, I can assure you that memory fades, and it's wonderful to be able to refresh it by online search.
Of course, one of the problems about posting comments, is that it's not a conversation - who has the time?
I look stuff up all the time - no problem with that. But at my stage of life,nobody is asking me to spend precious brain hours learning things off by heart, that are only learned for the sake of passing an exam. And that I will never, ever use again.
For instance - sines, cosines, logarithms.
Though I will say, I have used Pythagoras' theorem quite a bit. . .
I think that information in natural memory tends to become better integrated into one's overall map of reality than freshly "looked up", even if a look-up was its original point of contact. I find that stews are always better the second or third day, more flavors fortuitously come foreground, yet mingled, integrated into the whole. Stuff "cooks" in the mind as well.
That said, at 77 and never the worlds most precise person anyway, I regularly use the Internet to sharpen a memory, or to supplement it. It is a boon to obtain information so widely and easily.
And I dearly love being able to refresh my memory of old legal cases (holdings, usually), synopses of books I read a long time ago and have since donated, definitions of words so my speech and writing is as precise as I want it to be, etc. I have PLENTY of information available for daily use stored in "the little grey cells", but it's information I use regularly. I don't think I ever knew how many yards were in a mile (when would that ever be useful? - I'm asking seriously), but conversions from degrees Celsius to Fahrenheit, or centimeters to inches, etc., I have on hand.
If I may, I think it's a grave error to assume younger people don't think or question simply because information is readily available. There have always been butterflies flitting around from topic to topic after the equivalent of nectar, and there have always been ants, working to store information - in my opinion, it's a mistake to generalize and thereby disparage all young people.
I live in a metric country, Lynn. That's the only reason I have 1760 yards to a mile embedded in my brain. How else am I going to estimate what she's talking about when google maps tells me to turn left in 300 meters? This is only to inform you how many yards are in mile. It falls into your category of "information used regularly" for me, but is probably superfluous to most. My gray cells are preoccupied with bilinguality. I didn't make any comment about young people in my post about online references. I think you're referring to Lady Emsworth's post to which I replied.
Young people are young people, as were we, and our duty is to embrace and empower them. I think we always need to be aware of what we are teaching them, directly and indirectly; by instruction and by example. Will they (and how many) copy puerile and self-centered behavior we see in society today, or endearingly reject it? Do we let them see enough of the caring, responsible behavior we are capable of as well?
In my experience, parents try to prepare kids for an idealized world, then drop the pretense once they are "of age". Ideals are a good thing, but they require consistency to be realized and persevere. The rules we teach kids in the classroom and playground seem to go out the window when we turn to the ways we actually practice politics, and too often in the workplace as well. It's really hard not to take the devil's bargain without sufficient cultural support.
Good post JL Graham. Like the wheel, fire,, gunpowder, and many other inventions of mankind and womankind, television has ability to do great harm, as well as benefit humanity. The late author, renowned scholar, Neil Postman discussed the issue of television madness in his book, Amusing Ourselves To Death. Also potent and valuable reading, his "Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk" worthy of a look. When we can find it, calm is the balm we need going forward. Time hurries on, going forward. Always forward!
Calm is the balm! What I loved, in the "debate", was K Harris's spontaneous and frank laughter whenever Trump said something truly ridiculous. Her eyes sparkled with fun.
A focused, centered adult projects competence in levity, and even in anger. Trump is just a bully. It is something of a mystery to me why anyone would look to the latter for leadership.
I LOVED Amusing Ourselves to Death when I read it 30-some years ago! I amuse myself now by painting, designing furniture, and cooking. I do research online about herbal benefits so I can include plant-based remedies/preventatives in my cooking. Does anyone know how to get turmeric stains off of clothing and cookware?
That reminds me of an article by the late and very great Katharine Whitehorn back in swinging London - How to choose a carpet for your bedsit: same colour as your favourite wine. (What a wordsmith: in an article on preparing Christmas dinner: "staring into the turkey's gaping maw". ) P.S. I now have a marble cooktop, and just apply undiluted dishwashing liquid vigorously with an abrasive sponge and the turmeric disappears. You have to be quick.
I have not dealt with turmeric stains per se, but we have a nice holiday tablecloth that showed more stains every time it was washed. I soaked it overnight in with some of an "oxy" laundry soak and was amazed by the result. It removed all the old stains with no evident damage to the cloth or print. None were of turmeric though.
Mr Farnsworth was actually a relative. The Farnsworth parents, or grandparents, really, didn't watch television. The ones that now watch FOX are now Trumpers.
Cool. As an nearly lifelong electronics enthusiast (it kind of started before I was 5) I am pleased to make your "acquaintance". I also applaud his victory against rapacious RCA.
True. And most of us do not know how to protect our online identity from hacking.. now carried out by artificial intelligence (AI). Be Aware. And stay Strong… nonetheless!
TV rots our powers of concentration and our society. To what extent is American culture a product of corporate media? The technology is not to blame, but rather how it largely applied as a sales tool. The person who invented the first practical television system said that he had "created a monster" after seeing what it became. He would not let his kids watch it saying it did not want it to be part of their "intellectual diet". That might sound snooty, but Mr. Farnsworth grew up on a remote farm. He likened how one plows a field to the lines one used to see on analog TV screens that converted serial information into a 2D image.
In the 1960s and '70s there was salient public anxiety about commercial media becoming too socially influential. Now we mostly accept it as a fact of life.
Doesn't it remind you of what computer tech designers say? They feel the same about computers, which are way more dangerous than tvs in controlling minds. They collect our personal data and algorithmically control us as consumers and influence thinking and brainwashing politically.—on a massive scale. How many times have you had an offline conversation and afterward, your phone and computer sent you ads for exactly what you had just discussed? It is petrifying. It is also petrifying how many people are addicted to social media and how negative it is for those for all ages to handle so many made-up comparisons with others or the new, vacuous careers as "influencers."
I know how impacted my own mind has been for eight years of trying to fight this wannabe dictator and his bizarre minions. I have not been able to focus well or read books because I know enough history and studied cult leaders and how they form. I was petrified the first time I heard Convict 34+ speak at one of his rallies in 2016. That dominant male persona Immediately reminded me of a baby Hitler in the way he used repetitive brainwashing tactics. I was put in YT jail for stating that online.
Yesterday, I deliciously finished a thick Barbara Kingsolver book and realized how much I enjoy reading FOR FUN, and the craft of a great writer. I owe my returned focus to Joe Biden for agreeing to step down and support Kamala for the next POTUS. We will continue to be in capable hands with her at the helm. At the same time, we need to keep educating ignorance by increasing massive critical thinking skills across this land at home, in schools, and online.
Computers are more damaging than TV. They’re small enough to carry them with you wherever you go, AND we do!
Hey, dear friend, nice to see you here! Did you see Heather's interview with Brian Tyler Cohen? Worth seeing!
I just watched it. Everyone should watch this interview. Interesting thoughts about controlling the money, and more.
I am going to watch it tonight! Thank you!
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My children were born on the cusp of the 70s. I have never owned a TV. They watched it for two hours at their friends' places after school until I got home from work. Books, ballet, sport, theatre, and we went to the cinema. And music - theirs and mine.
Very similar to our approach in the 70s and 80s: we owned only a small portable tv that we kept in a closet. We put a tv guide with it, and allowed each child to schedule up to four hours of tv per week. Our three children often forgot to watch their scheduled tv for the week. It was very low priority. Of course they occasionally saw tv at friends' houses, but most kids played outside after school and on weekends.
We didn't have a TV in our home in the 50's when I was a kid. By design. We also listened to a wide range of music from Latin records my mom collected to musical theater albums to jazz to classical. I also got classes in ballet, modern dance, drawing, painting, and acting. We also went to kid concerts and theater.
When we did finally get a TV my younger sister and I could only watch while Mom was at work or when she slept in weekend mornings. I read books. I'd like to believe it all made me a critical thinker rather than a mere consumer of advertising-disguised-as-entertainment.
Ms. Luccarini,
I was born in the late 40’s. My Father didn’t allow a tv in our home. I watched it on occasion while late babysitting.
We had piano, flute, dance lessons, books books books and hiking and conversation with and about nature. Then off to college to become a teacher.
We once rented a tv during the morbid and emotional trauma caused by Kennedy’s assassination.
I chose not to have children, but know that I would not have allowed any screens ( cell phones) in their lives today. That is where I see the saddest development of young and old.
Or better said “ non-developed “ young and old.
Yes, Jean(Muriel), but do you own a cat? Apparently that's the defining characteristic of women who don't reproduce, whether by choice or by happenstance.
I have two!! Meow meow. Several of my cats over the years lived to be 23 years old. I have been , since a small child, in love with cats. My father loved them too. I love horses too!🐈⬛🐈🐴🦄🎶👏🏻🥰🤣😂
I had more fun building a TV in an electronics course than watching it. Though there were periods of watching a lot with parents, we had several gaps in even having a tv in the house. After the one I built had the flyback transformer fail, we didn't get another until we got a small portable to watch the 1st Space Shuttle Launch. I watched the Apollo 11 moon landing on an even tinier portable at the gas station across he street from my parent's house.
J L, we not only accept the influence of commercial media as a fact of life, but we carry our televisions in our pockets so that we can view the latest “news” from the moment we awake until we go to sleep.
Yup. And ‘the “news” is caught up in the web of “messengers”… (🫣) keep your sense of humor… and your cautious social skills sharp !
Yes tv rots our brain but I think social media and the internet have done even more damage to society. Practically no one can focus or concentrate for very long, critical thinking is gone, the division and hatred has exploded in the last 10 years or so due to the convicted felon adjudicated rapist using it to spew his hatred everywhere and stir up hatred esp of of minorities and women. Not to mention all the mis and dis information flooding the internet.
Right. In another time, a TV in the living room always turned on in the evening. We thought of nothing else but watching that new media having replaced the radio and FDR Fireside Chats. Screens do inform but too much atrophy’s the brain. Parents made the horrible mistake giving their children cell devises and psychological studies now find the negative effects of this. And worse, social media has damaged young minds for two generations.
I suppose one might call this site social media, but the likes of Facebook seems to me to exploits people at least as much as empower them. I avoid sites that push things at you. Push media makes us passive spectators. There is a place for that, but it can't sustain democracy. Bowing to Mr. "Only I Can Fix It." is exactly what democracy is not. The truth is only we can fix it.
I have used a computer since 1990 for college and then work, Terry. I signed up for social media when it became popular, but I never developed a taste for it; conversations like these are as close as I come. I don't own a TV, but when I did I used it to watch streaming movies. I listen to podcasts or watch them on YouTube. That's how one can sidestep the mis and dis info, algorithmic pandering, etc. Computers don't kill thought, poor education does.
The Internet is much the same phenomenon with new wrinkles. Again, not the technology itself, but how it is dominated. I naively thought that the decentralized architecture of the Internet was inherently democratic, and while I has that capability, as demonstrated here, i was wrong to believe it would resist plutocratic domination. The Internet was created with the public's money by the Department of Defense. For years it was a cooperative DIY environment of monochrome monitors and text only. When Internet multimedia was enabled by Tim Berners-Lee at the CERN particle physics laboratory, the World Wide Web exploded, as, content -wise, a DYI phenomenon. Now commercialization and political propaganda dominates the medium. I should have known that the outcomes of ANY technology depends on who is using it and for what purpose.
I have two tvs and rarely watch them. My screen time is predominately iPad or computer time.
Same here.
TVs are best for entertainment. Ours is black all day long. One hour of news, maybe. Then later, a movie, perhaps. Unless I turn on the ROKU fish tank screensaver. I like how the eel slides in and out of his cave. I am tempted to name him you know what...but perhaps not. I respect eels too much.
Bill, we just cut Comcast cable and now have an antenna which picks up the local stations we want as we do watch an hour of news and sometimes Masterpiece on PBS. We also have a couple options for TV sports because Comcast can't reach an agreement with the Big Ten where Oregon now resides. Other than that, we stream and enjoy productions that, by and large, are not filmed here. We both read voraciously.
I stream stuff too. I stopped watching commercial TV years ago when all the news was a cheering squad for W's invasion of Iraq.
You could call him "Slick Willy," the Bill Clinton social media handle.
Unfortunately a lot of people's (especially the young's) time is predominantly the computer, ipad or phone. Questions don't have to be asked or remembered - "How many yards in a mile? Strike if you looked it up. No need for formal "knowledge any more - or thinking. Google will tell you all. You don't even have to think. . . or question. It's all really easy
What's wrong with looking up an answer to something you're curious about, Lady Emsworth? I absolutely agree that it's great to have relevant data stored in one's natural memory (vs. RAM), but as a nearly 77-year old, I can assure you that memory fades, and it's wonderful to be able to refresh it by online search.
It's also pleasing to have remembered enough to know where to search.
Of course, one of the problems about posting comments, is that it's not a conversation - who has the time?
I look stuff up all the time - no problem with that. But at my stage of life,nobody is asking me to spend precious brain hours learning things off by heart, that are only learned for the sake of passing an exam. And that I will never, ever use again.
For instance - sines, cosines, logarithms.
Though I will say, I have used Pythagoras' theorem quite a bit. . .
I think that information in natural memory tends to become better integrated into one's overall map of reality than freshly "looked up", even if a look-up was its original point of contact. I find that stews are always better the second or third day, more flavors fortuitously come foreground, yet mingled, integrated into the whole. Stuff "cooks" in the mind as well.
That said, at 77 and never the worlds most precise person anyway, I regularly use the Internet to sharpen a memory, or to supplement it. It is a boon to obtain information so widely and easily.
Plus Wikipedia is now being so widely corrected by experts who can quote sources that it's getting more and more quotable.
And I dearly love being able to refresh my memory of old legal cases (holdings, usually), synopses of books I read a long time ago and have since donated, definitions of words so my speech and writing is as precise as I want it to be, etc. I have PLENTY of information available for daily use stored in "the little grey cells", but it's information I use regularly. I don't think I ever knew how many yards were in a mile (when would that ever be useful? - I'm asking seriously), but conversions from degrees Celsius to Fahrenheit, or centimeters to inches, etc., I have on hand.
If I may, I think it's a grave error to assume younger people don't think or question simply because information is readily available. There have always been butterflies flitting around from topic to topic after the equivalent of nectar, and there have always been ants, working to store information - in my opinion, it's a mistake to generalize and thereby disparage all young people.
I'm not complaining they "don't think" - I'm complaining they're not TAUGHT to think. For every ant. you are getting more and more grasshoppers.
I live in a metric country, Lynn. That's the only reason I have 1760 yards to a mile embedded in my brain. How else am I going to estimate what she's talking about when google maps tells me to turn left in 300 meters? This is only to inform you how many yards are in mile. It falls into your category of "information used regularly" for me, but is probably superfluous to most. My gray cells are preoccupied with bilinguality. I didn't make any comment about young people in my post about online references. I think you're referring to Lady Emsworth's post to which I replied.
You're right; sorry, Laura.
Young people are young people, as were we, and our duty is to embrace and empower them. I think we always need to be aware of what we are teaching them, directly and indirectly; by instruction and by example. Will they (and how many) copy puerile and self-centered behavior we see in society today, or endearingly reject it? Do we let them see enough of the caring, responsible behavior we are capable of as well?
In my experience, parents try to prepare kids for an idealized world, then drop the pretense once they are "of age". Ideals are a good thing, but they require consistency to be realized and persevere. The rules we teach kids in the classroom and playground seem to go out the window when we turn to the ways we actually practice politics, and too often in the workplace as well. It's really hard not to take the devil's bargain without sufficient cultural support.
Good post JL Graham. Like the wheel, fire,, gunpowder, and many other inventions of mankind and womankind, television has ability to do great harm, as well as benefit humanity. The late author, renowned scholar, Neil Postman discussed the issue of television madness in his book, Amusing Ourselves To Death. Also potent and valuable reading, his "Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk" worthy of a look. When we can find it, calm is the balm we need going forward. Time hurries on, going forward. Always forward!
Calm is the balm! What I loved, in the "debate", was K Harris's spontaneous and frank laughter whenever Trump said something truly ridiculous. Her eyes sparkled with fun.
A focused, centered adult projects competence in levity, and even in anger. Trump is just a bully. It is something of a mystery to me why anyone would look to the latter for leadership.
I LOVED Amusing Ourselves to Death when I read it 30-some years ago! I amuse myself now by painting, designing furniture, and cooking. I do research online about herbal benefits so I can include plant-based remedies/preventatives in my cooking. Does anyone know how to get turmeric stains off of clothing and cookware?
Dye the garment turmeric color. Ignore it on cookware and plates, etc. Sorry. It's as bad as lily pollen.
That reminds me of an article by the late and very great Katharine Whitehorn back in swinging London - How to choose a carpet for your bedsit: same colour as your favourite wine. (What a wordsmith: in an article on preparing Christmas dinner: "staring into the turkey's gaping maw". ) P.S. I now have a marble cooktop, and just apply undiluted dishwashing liquid vigorously with an abrasive sponge and the turmeric disappears. You have to be quick.
I have not dealt with turmeric stains per se, but we have a nice holiday tablecloth that showed more stains every time it was washed. I soaked it overnight in with some of an "oxy" laundry soak and was amazed by the result. It removed all the old stains with no evident damage to the cloth or print. None were of turmeric though.
Mr Farnsworth was actually a relative. The Farnsworth parents, or grandparents, really, didn't watch television. The ones that now watch FOX are now Trumpers.
Cool. As an nearly lifelong electronics enthusiast (it kind of started before I was 5) I am pleased to make your "acquaintance". I also applaud his victory against rapacious RCA.
True. And most of us do not know how to protect our online identity from hacking.. now carried out by artificial intelligence (AI). Be Aware. And stay Strong… nonetheless!