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There's No Undoing Tech's Great Rewiring of Childhood


Psychologist Jonathan Haidt warns that social media harms children but definitive evidence is hard to find. Whatever your views on kids and technology, digital connectivity is now part of childhood.

Though artificial intelligence has long been baked into Apple’s products and services, the company’s dramatic full-body embrace into tech’s most vital and disruptive sector apparently won't happen until next month’s developer conference, WWDC. For those who haven’t viewed it, the commercial shows an industrial crush machine flattening musical instruments, video consoles, televisions, turntables, books, paints, and other beloved items with the enthusiasm of an action film glamorizing a car wreck. The ostensible message is that all the wonderful songs, movies, video games, and books created with the artifacts of analog are now preserved in a gorgeous sliver of glass and aluminum of the new iPad Pro, which is all that remains when the brutal pancaking is complete.

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