“All our neighbors worked for those firms — Facebook, Google and Apple. None of them would let their children interact with any screens. They all knew how addicting they were and how to protect their own children.”
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A movement I'm following in public ed and something I just read about this morning: Parents, Schools Clash Over Movement to Abolish Screens. Enrollment is declining nationwide, so school boards and cabinet members can't ignore this very real concern.
Not limited to tech. I worked in advertising in the Bay Area for many years and my collegues, if they had the means, chose Montessori or Waldorf or some other privae educational system that deemphasized screens/technology/consumerism for their kids. Almost without exception.
If these tiny scions of the powerful have no screens to look at then just imagine all the time they must have to watch the adults around them… who are focused on their screens. They are likely desperate to know what wonders keep their favorite people (including nannies and teachers) staring down into those little boxes. I predict their teenage years will bring some combination of resentment, rebellion, duplicity and defiance.
Waiting for just one movie to depict screen usage as it actually exists in the 21st century.
Would that be?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WALL-E
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