The Importance of a Family Computer

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There's a lot of great stuff to do on the internet, but doing it through the family laptop is like watching TV. Even if they have school-issued laptops at some of the private schools around here, there's probably some controls on that as well. They all get around them. I'm telling you, these kids that'll like stare at you for an hour, if you ask them to do a fraction,. If they could get access to YouTube, they are, you know, building a quantum processor to break the encryption. That's where I think the research lies right now.

Are smartphones bad for kids? Cal walks through the data on this question, including how researchers came to be worried, their findings, critiques of their findings, and where we are today. He then gives recommendations for how to think about technology when it comes to your kids.

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