The Great Deterioration of Local Community And The Loss of The Play-Based Childhood

Virtual networks are not sufficient replacements for real-world communities.

Jean Twenge argues that technological change is the largest single driver of generational differences, in her book, Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future. Putnam and Twenge both point to the “individualizing” or “atomizing” effect of new technologies of conv... See more