It means that depressed/cynical/apathetic people may have a gene that enables them to see the world more clearly.
It makes some of us think.
I just realized why I've been unable to ignore our path straight towards Idiocracy (the planet won't survive, but our path is clear).

That's what you get when management shit-for-brains get to decide what buzzwords are relevant in a job application. Framework familiarity > actual skills. Coincidentally the reason I left teh biz.

Small children don't "read books" on smart devices. They may be forced to use "edutainment" apps, but nevertheless:
People with actual skills in the field of IT tinker/has tinkered.
Old tech forced everyone slightly interested to learn and tinker (at least a bit).
New tech mostly generate specific UI-skills.
There is no "Daddy/mommy is doing something that seems extremely complicated on that machine, and I want to do it too" in new tech.
Einstein was a huge tinkerer (with physics and math as tools). Do you actually believe that's because he was spoon-fed simple math and basic Newtonian physics?
Actually - I don't care what you think. Good luck raising drones (no, not the cool ones).

With emphasis on "use tech".
There is nothing wrong with parents taking a timeout from their children using tools like smartphone games and/or TV, but trying to defend it by saying "it's educational" is plain stupidity.
A retard (no, really) can learn how to "use" an iPad or a smartphone.
Hand-eye coordination may become slightly improved, but in reality:

Angry birds is intuitive because we've all thrown stuff in the air and tried to catch it.
If you learn by playing catch you become healthier, develop muscles, activate most of your body and much of your brain (predicting projectile trajectories, balance, muscle cortex, sight and so on).
If you play angry birds you MIGHT learn a tiny, tiny bit about projectile trajectories.

There are no games that are better than pen-and-paper combined with parental reading and support to teach a child how to read and write.
No game at all can teach your child empathy.
Adults are getting crappier (IQ in western populations has started to decline since tech became user-friendly) partly because of user friendliness, and now parents shove their own crappiness and laziness down their children's brains (Mmmmhh brains...)

Good effort, "Toronto family".

They knew how to think back in the day.
If a criminal knows he/she/it doesn't even need to lie he/she/it can relax in his/hers/its inherent stupidity (criminals are stupid 9 times out of 10).
If they had to lie they'd need to grow some brains (and that would either make crimes worse or better).

The enemy you know is better than the unknown.

Your country already borders on totalitarian.
Your stuff and opinions are tightly regulated to prevent you from being a bad consumer.
Look at this thread - do you really believe that normal americans would be so vehemently anti-science (yes, science is in practice the best current guess, but it's still the best) without some kind of opposing force (Big oil -> politicians+Fox)?

Critical thinking is good, but a failure to recognize important data generates close-mindedness and stupidity.

Hahahaha!
Some of you are so clueless I find comfort in the fact that my potential demise because of global climate change probably means your demise aswell.

Even those of you who are astroturfers ought to be able to see through the noise of FOX Entertainmet Network and all your religious entrepeneurs. I'll dumb it down for the one person of you with enough cognitive ability to get it:
If your car is broken down you go to a car mechanic.
If your teeth hurt you go to a dentist.
If you feel very ill you go to a medical doctor.
If you want to learn about climate science you go to a climate scientist.

Because they are the human beings with the most knowledge about climate science. If there is an overwhelming consensus among them then you are plain stupid to ignore it.

Side effects include slower cognitive functioning.

TFA mentions that the control group learned to learn the new stuff they all learnt, but the brainfried group only learned the new stuff.
They boosted the area of the brain that needed to learn, but in doing so the brainfries never "learned to learn", so in effect they didn't become "smarter", as in adapting their brains to new situations. They just learned new stuff.

It does have really cool applications, like learning a new language quickly or help people recover from brain defects/injuries, but I wouldn't try it in a decade or two.
We know precious little about the brain.

He will build a cool computer.
We still don't really know what neurons store.

Bill is a relic from ancient times
An ancient species with highly dualistic traits.
He's an entrepeneur
AND a human being!

Remarkable, really.

Food can contain alcohol, yes, so these very low (0% in practice) levels need the correct law enforcement procedures.

There are many billions of neurons in our brain. Alot of them are specialized towards maintaining balance, generate speech, interpretation of visual and auditory stimuli and so on ("the easy stuff"), but not most. Each neuron holds a part of a memory and/or function, and the wiring (axons and synapses) together with the limbic system, a shitload of other stimuli and some errors in communication generates thoughts and behaviour. Every brain is unique. Every person is unique. No two minds has ever occupied the same body in the same period of time. Every. Person. Is. Unique. This is not assembler, where mnemonics are limited in number and errors are few (if you're good at it). This is not C/C++. This is not Java. This will never be Visual Basic (I know, I'm old). Until we can run simulations on the data and network generated by every neuron, axon and synapse in an individual we will not have a quick fix (aka "fo' shizza" real scientific approach to mental illness, which some geeks or Big Pharma trolls here "believe" exists today) without drawbacks. The current (ideal) model of psychiatry (Medication if other methods doesn't work) is not practiced mostly because of Big Pharma but also because MDs are in need of a quick fix and may lack a holistic approach to mental illnesses (like many, many geeks, apparently). If you can't understand the value of what I've just explained (you don't have to agree with the last part), you REALLY NEED TO STFU!

There is no moral compass, there is only more or less accepted in different cultures/discourses.

Of course noone wants to be surprised by a terrorist attack.
Of course noone wants to be snooped upon in their own homes.

More money down the drain...