Larissa May

This is not something that's going away, and in fact, in five years, we're going to be sitting wishing that you asked people to put their phones away because our tech is going to be embedded in our bodies.

And so what we need to figure out is, how do we preserve the part of us that makes us human?

What is your answer to that question?

Well, I think we really need to get out of the consumer seat and into the driver's seat when it comes to technology.

And what I mean by that is that you can literally retrain your mind or your child's mind by engaging with technology 20 minutes a day and doing something joyful.

So sparking the imagination loop.

Instead of having your child scrolling passively on YouTube, sit down, let them tell you a story and make it together on AI and let them watch it appear like magic.

That is joy.

That is how technology can be used.

But more importantly, it will awaken our senses instead of suffocate them.

It would look like young people believing that they have a right to their mind.

Say more about that.

What I mean is that, like I said, kids have just been taught to be consumers of technology.

I am watching kids every day say, I'm going to put my phone down and I'm going to take back control of my thoughts.

I'm going to think before I search.

I'm going to reflect before I say.

Hmm.

Technology has, quite honestly, told us more about our own stories than we've let ourself reflect on our own.

And I know that in this new future, we will have no minds left behind if we continue to give young people the tools to rewrite that for the next generation.

swap screens with analog fun, have a notebook and paper, get your knitting, put your phone down, keep that at your desk.