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RE: Broken eye contact and future depression
Excessive use of technology can have an impact in how people develop their social skills, and perhaps that's the reason why Steve Jobs didn't let his children use the iPad.
To know the implications of this in babies and small children of today we would have to wait obviously, but I would not be worried about this. I mean, technology will keep integrating itself more and more in our lives with each passing year, we will simply adapt to it one way or another.
Even if there might be some negative issues like the one you mentioned about not looking at each other's eyes, technology is the only way to improve our lives and the world, so our integration with it will and should continue its course.
I think that no matter the technology, our psychology is not adapting fast enough for it. There of course migt be augmentations to come that counteract the negatives but they too will have a cost. we are essentially dehumanizing ourselves from each other. We will adapt but what into is the question.