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Hacker News 100 (hn100@social.lansky.name)'s status on Monday, 23-Feb-2026 20:27:12 JST Hacker News 100

$30B for laptops yielded a generation less cognitively capable than parents
Link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/u-spent-30-billion-ditch-110200869.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47117087
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  The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents
  
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  Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”
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