Obama Calls Today's Ubiquitous Gadgets and Information "a Distraction"

zaphod was one of several readers unhappy with the sentiment expressed in President Obama's graduation address to the students of Virginia's Hampton University, writing: "According to Obama, 'information becomes a distraction' when it comes to iPads, the Xbox, etc. (All items he admits not knowing how to use.) He's basically saying we are getting too much information too quickly, and from 'unreliable sources.' Of course, he's referring to talk radio, blogs and other mediums that tend to disagree with his political views." CNET has a slightly different, less critical reaction, focusing on the differences among the actual devices named; they note that the Xbox is not an iPad.

Comments

Re:it wasn't a distraction last year

[oh_my_080980980]

Hey douche bag Obama said the problem is when "information becomes a distraction...rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation."

Do you get the point. It's the same problem parents have been complaining about for the past 40 years! First it was TV, then Video Games, and now it's the Internet. All forms of distraction. People read less and pay less attention to the world around them.

Moron

Re:Information Overload

[Quiet_Desperation]

It pisses me off to no end that me, an European, have to be then one pointing out the he's a man that has succeeded in getting elected to a highly coveted position, which few can achieve and that maybe his non-political opinions, at least once in a while, should be heard instead of dismissed outright because of his political affiliation

Wow. You not only drank the Kool-Aid you bathed in it. Somehow I suspect you'd not make the same statement about Bush. Or McCain if he had won.

He, like every other politician, was elected by a vast machine process where the actual vote is just a final formality.