iPad kids and the role of children in balancing change vs continuity
We're too busy worrying about what's good for the kids. But that's not the point. The point of kids is to inform the future of society. That's not happening if they're off chasing butterflies.
That is, progress wants kids to be playing with the technology of the day. At least that's better than them playing with knives and food.
- And maybe parents' urge to keep their kids safe is actually beneficial for creativity. Since it's pushing their creative energies away from outdoors (i.e. worthless things) and into the virtual world.
My hypothesis is that the "successful" kids of next generation will be those that were given an ipad when they were young.
- [?] was there a version of this issue at the invention of the printing press?
- "kids these days, stuck in their books..."
- [?] what evidence would support/falsify this claim?
- Examples of important technologies and the people who were behind them
However, there definitely is some balance, as there always is. That's why, like in Cultural Evolution, we have the elders. There to guide the play, to maintain some sort of passing forward of the values of the past. the difficult balance between change and continuity