Professor Bobby Duffy

But we've done nothing, I think, to consider the implications of that.

And we have let it rip quite a bit.

I mean, I do think when you think about Jonathan Haidt's kind of points about how, you know, there is no age of adulthood on the Internet.

And we just have let people get access to technology.

content in a way that we just would not in the real world.

So we didn't think enough about how do we protect young people and get some proper age verification into these systems sooner.

I mean, they're starting it now, but it's really hard.

The trouble is, I mean, a lot of our work is more generally on culture wars, which includes that sense of loneliness and loss that people feel, because that is a key part of people looking for tribal identities.

The trouble is the big answers are around proper regulation and control of these global platforms.

And when you get to that, you get incredibly stuck on what strengths do we have?

What capabilities do we have to control something that is truly global?

And again, you're starting to see things inching forward from European Union and others, but they are inching forward 10, 15 years after this is actually happening.

been a life shaping technology for lots of people.

So we're way behind on that.

And it looks increasingly difficult for nation states to have the power to control that.

Yeah, no, that dependence on family is a real thing.

So we've seen a massive shift in the past couple of decades to that utter reliance on family to, say, support your first home.

So it's now a third of new homeowners rely on gifts from family or friends.

And it's almost always parents.

You've got a third of people relying on that now.