Today, he said, the opposite is true: “If you’re truly at the top of the hierarchy, you don’t have to answer to anyone. They have to answer to you.”The joy — at least at first — of the internet revolution was its democratic nature. The wealthy can afford to opt out of having their data and their attention sold as a product. Most disturbingly, the study is finding that the brains of children who spend a lot of time on screens are different. But this idea isn’t how the people who actually build the screen-based future raise their own children.

Source: New York Times March 23, 2019 18:22 UTC