I often wonder whether real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitised and easier screen dialogues, in much the same way as killing, skinning and butchering an animal to eat has been replaced by the convenience of packages of meat on the supermarket shelf
Her speculations about clinical diagnoses such as ADHD and autism were especially dubious. Her comments were ill-judged and they bring her position as head of the Royal Institution into disrepute. She's taken a lot of flak, and she fully deserves it. Perhaps when in the real world such responses are not immediately forthcoming, we will see such behaviours and call them attention-deficit disorder. If the young brain is exposed from the outset to a world of fast action and reaction, of instant new screen images flashing up with the press of a key, such rapid interchange might accustom the brain to operate over such timescales.
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