[benrutter]

It does seem like middle america has a new crisis every 10 years or so. That said, other than the "dungeons and dragons is gonna make everyone satanic" phase, I think there's often some truth to the concerns.

New technology changes the context for raising young people. Phones probably won't turn the globe into deliquents, but we do need to consider how to teach children long term focus, educate them to spot misinformation, and give them a whole bunch of skills they wouldn't have needed 15 years ago.

New technology probably won't stop the next generation from thriving, but the current generation of parents, teachers and voters completely ignoring new issues facing kids, and hoping they fix themselves, just might.

[logicchains]

>but we do need to consider how to teach children long term focus, educate them to spot misinformation

The kids are already much better at spotting misinformation than the older generations are, as I'm sure anyone with boomer relatives on Facebook will have noticed.