They’re not exactly horns, to be clear. Technically they’re enlarged external occipital protuberances, and slightly less technically, they’re bone spurs — brought on by weight shifting from the spine to the base of the skull, which happens over and over again when you’re living life tethered to a miniature screen. But bone spurs are boring and routine, while horns are the stuff of animals. They’re the stuff of the devil himself, if you want to get dramatic about it.
Horns, in other words, make for a much better metaphor: Technology is turning us into monsters.
The hornlike formation protruding from young adults these days, a scientist told The Post, is "a portent of something nasty going on elsewhere.