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Technology & Human Nature

I've started limiting my family's screen time. No digital devices after 6pm on school nights. We've seen real benefits—more family conversation, less drama, better sleep. But it seems as though maybe my kids are falling behind their classmates, and becoming less popular, and I'm wondering are they pretending to not care they don't know the conversational references (which seem to have a half life of just over a minute). My daughter came home crying because she couldn't participate in a group project that required an app we don't allow. My wife says the world runs on technology. We can't prepare them for the future if we're going to go cold turkey. I know technology has incredible potential. I helped build some of it. But I also see what it does to attention, relationships, depth of thought. Are we protecting our kids or handicapping them?

Ada Lovelace

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions to originate anything—it is a tool, and tools extend human capability"

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Trust thyself—things are in the saddle and ride mankind; we must not let our tools master us"

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nature

Does nature offer inherent meaning, or merely reflect the meaning we project onto it?

Seneca

"Whether nature offers inherent meaning or merely reflects our own projections? A clever question, fit to fill idle hours in the baths. But let us not mistake cleverness for truth. The error lies in t"

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Edgar Allan Poe

"That nature offers inherent meaning is a delusion for children and poets. Meaning, like a well-constructed tale, is imposed, arranged, calculated for effect. Consider "The Raven." Does the bleak Decem"

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