[tuxidomasx]

The new Black Mirror season had an episode about this very concept called Arkangel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkangel_(Black_Mirror)

This episode explores some of the risks that monitoring and censoring children can have on their development and also the effect it can have on the parents themselves.

[freeflight]

Sometimes I wonder if it isn't our fiction which forms and drives our expectations about what our future should look like.

There are actually people who consider a story like Minority Report not as a cautionary tale but rather as a challenge along the lines of "They just did it wrong in fiction, we can do it better in reality!".

Just like I'm pretty sure there are quite a few parents out there who would watch that BM episode and go "I'd totally put such an implant into my child but I'd do xyz different!".

[majewsky]

That's an old theme. See e.g. the fairy tale Rapunzel.

[b-zee]

Could you elaborate? I fail to see the connection.

[sirclueless]

I suppose it's a sort of shallow reference to keeping a child locked up in a tower away from the world. Not sure it's a great comparison since the woman raising Rapunzel disowns her when she discovers she's been sleeping with a prince, and blinds him. But they find each other by her voice, her tears heal his eyes, and he takes her back to his kingdom. So I guess the moral is if you keep your innocent child locked away from the world the only people who will make an effort to find them are gallant princes.

[TeMPOraL]

> So I guess the moral is if you keep your innocent child locked away from the world the only people who will make an effort to find them are gallant princes.

The moral sounds to me more like: if you keep your innocent child locked away from the world, you might just create a cure for blindness.