There have always been complaints about young people getting into something that will inevitably destroy their minds or society or both. Believe it or not, the Sony Walkman was once seen as a terrible, terrible thing. Here is a quote from the Chicago Tribune from 1981:
“The Walkman is replacing certain drugs as a mind- and mood-altering device. When teenagers have reached the point where they feel they must shut out the sounds of the Ohio State Fair, society is surely ready to collapse.”
If that writer is still around today, I wonder what he or she would think about today’s headphone culture. We can probably guess.
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