By Resilience Speaker, Jamie Mason Cohen
Tristan Harris, former Google Design Ethicist concluded that the phone is the equivalent to one billion slot machines in our pockets. We look at our phones on average, 150 times a day.
Technology is highjacking are brains, shortening our attention spans, making young people less social, reducing empathy, and making us distracted and unfocused. Harris calls it an attention epidemic.
Bill Gates won’t let his kids use phones until they’re 14.
An interviewer asked Steve Jobs, “What do your kids think of the new iPad?” Jobs answered: “They haven’t tried it yet. I don’t let them look at technology at the dinner table. We talk.”
Chris Anderson, former Editor of Wired said that he was proud of the fact that he was the hardest amongst all his kid’s friends’ parents in limiting tech. He said, “We know the dangers that technology could potentially have.”
There’s a movement happening in Silicon Valley in which leaders of the tech. industry are sending their kids to CEL Los Angeles schools that put a primary emphasis on hands-on learning.
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