Fun fact: When books came out, people who read them were often told that books are bad for their eyesight, and that they should go outside. Sound familiar?,(reply>), ah, yes.<br>And they were right even, kinda. Because people were reading in very low light, which is indeed bad for your eyes. <br>But it wasn't because of the book, but the conditions under which they were used.<br><br>My parents weren't allowed to watch television because "television corrupts the mind".<br>My grandmother was told radio "puts the devil in your head".<br>I was told that "television turns your eyes into cubes" by my mother (yes, really) in the 1970s (meaning the same thing, "it makes your eyes go bad"). <br>Cartoons were "the devil's work" into the 1960s at least.<br>Then in the 1990s when computers became commonplace those were said to be bad for you in some vague and unspecified way if you used them "too much".,(reply>), ever geard of "the sorrows of young werther" and the "werther-effect"  before?,(reply>), Lol, for real?,(reply>), Hell, when the first novels came out, people warned that those would make people become lost in fantasy worlds. Bycicles would destroy the male as well as female fertility. Cinema, radio and tv were satans tools from hell or at least dangerous - mind you, not the conveyed contents, but the media itself.,(reply>), Yes