Still, the cultural signs — not the economic and scientific ones — will make the biggest difference. Anyone paying even a little attention last year could have run into news about how tech executives themselves were working hard to keep their own kids off screens. An employee of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative — the nonprofit started by Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, to “leverage technology” for good — told the New York Times “the devil lives in our phones and is wreaking havoc on our children.” The former editor of Wired compared screens to “crack cocaine.”

Source: Los Angeles Times January 07, 2019 11:15 UTC