Of course, you know all about it. It has overshadowed all other headline news. It has become everyone's passion. There's no escaping it.
If you haven't heard of it, you probably live in a cave and won't be reading this anyway. If you don't understand what it is… well, that's a different story.
For people of a certain age — not to mention a certain level of maturity and common sense — the latest tech-fad is barely comprehensible. Countless denizens of the virtual world have crawled out of the darkness and into the sunlight to search for animated characters that can only be seen on their cell phone screens in undisclosed locations. By wandering about pointing their phones hither and thither, players find cartoon critters, then take aim and "shoot" to catch their pixilated prey.
But is it really harmless?
By Yonason Goldson in Culture, Personal Development, Psychology, Society on July 20, 2016 .