Jonathan Haidt

But it turns out that the equity issue is exactly the reverse, as you just said, because if you put a computer on a kid's desk, it's like a smartphone, it's a multifunction device.

And if they're supposed to do something, they're gonna end up watching YouTube or TikTok.

So computers on desks, the one-to-one devices has been a disaster.

There's no evidence I've seen that it helps education, it distracts them.

The clearest illustration of this is the fact that the people who make this technology, the people in Silicon Valley, where do they send their kids?

a lot of them send their kids to the Waldorf school, specifically because Waldorf schools have no computers at all in the classroom, no technology.

That's right.

There's a computer room so they can learn how to program.

They can learn to use computers, but it's not there interfering with their attention every moment of the day.

Oh my.

Here's the point.

The richest, most powerful people in the world protect their children from the technology.

They make their nannies sign contracts pledging that they will not let that child see the nanny's phone.

So the rich, most powerful people can protect their children from the technology.

They don't want their kids to use it.

They want your kids to use it.

So if it doesn't happen, the future is an extrapolation of where we are now.

We have an entire generation more anxious, less risk-taking.

They're going to be less entrepreneurial.

They'll start fewer businesses.