Jonathan Haidt
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first heard Jun 2026
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So that's going.
The one I was referring to is now the next step is analog paths through school, especially elementary school.
Because sure, you can get the kids off their phones, but they've got a computer sitting on their desk all day long.
It's called one-to-one devices.
So I've been careful not to talk about ed tech until I knew more about it.
In the book, I didn't say much about it.
But now it's pretty clear, one-to-one devices, putting a computer on a kid's desk and doing a lot of the day there is a really, really bad idea because it mostly ends up on TikTok, YouTube, and video games.
Sure.
And so a lot of parents now are rising up and saying, get this the hell out of my child's life.
Why is there an iPad on my kindergartner's desk?
There's no reason for it.
So I think we're seeing a big push and that's I think gonna go national because it's just so obviously true that kids need to develop basic skills.
They need to learn to read and write.
They need books and tablets and computers are just really bad for them for their education.
That's the only way to actually motivate them.
Or it's not the only way to motivate them.
It's the only way to test that they have learned to think.
So the way to think about this, the great media theorists of the 20th century, like Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman, they talked about how every technology is also an amputation.
And so when we get calculators, we get less good at multiplying in our heads.
We get compasses, we get less good at wayfinding.
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