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"The Vision Pro demo video is a Covid time capsule: a parade of solitary, indoor individuals. The brief family scenes are cringe-worthy. My sons get pissed off when I keep my airpods in at a football match, but we’re going to wear headsets at our kids’ birthday parties?" (Scott Galloway, Isn’t That Spatial?)
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But overprotection is just one part of a larger trend that we call problems of progress. This term refers to bad consequences produced by otherwise good social changes. It’s great that our economic system produces an abundance of food at low prices, but the flip side is an epidemic of obesity. It’s great that we can connect and communicate with peo... See more
Jonathan Haidt • The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
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We’re decades deep into the helicopter parenting era. Children have never been healthier or safer, but then, American children have been remarkably healthy and safe for decades longer, there was never any real “stranger danger,” and improvements to child health are the product of improving medical technology, not ever-more-anxious parents.
Freddie DeBoer • You Are You. We Live Here. This Is Now.
Silicon Valley had long had a widespread, ironic parenting philosophy rooted in avoiding its own inventions.
Mark Bergen • Like, Comment, Subscribe
The decision to have children, which she views as the “ultimate vote of confidence” in the future, may also be affected by how optimistic people are about the state of the world,
Teddy Rosenbluth • Why Are So Many Americans Choosing to Not Have Children?
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