It's a very tiresome and lazy way to feel smug and superior while doing, and saying, essentially nothing.

Some of those past forewarning were pretty damn correct: television did do damage at a psychological and even sociological level. "Educational" television was by and large a failure, especially for young children.

And there's some pretty strong evidence of video games, if not encouraging kids to hop into the family Battlemech and blow up their neighborhoods (as Joe Lieberman notoriously implied in the 90s when he declared Mechwarrior 2 one of the most violent games of all time), can still make them more callous and depersonalize the idea of violence over time. This can especially be seen in the US military's own approach to marketing for recruits through games.