“Look how much time these kids spend on computers, phones, and other devices,” people say. “It is what they know. It is how they communicate. It is what they love.” To deny them the digital technology at the core of their life, they say, is to ignore the reality of a world that has fundamentally changed. What I found over the course of writing this book, however, is the exact opposite. The younger someone was, the more digitally exposed their generation was, the less I found them enamored by digital technology, and the more they were wary of its effects. These were the teenagers and
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