Sumarbúðir

Þessi grein vakti áhuga minn í Time þessa helgina.

I’ll hate not talking to my daughter. But I agree with MIT psychologist Sherry Turkle, who says our gizmos are a “tethering technology,” a new kind of apron string, strong albeit wireless, a safety net woven a bit too tight. When colleges report kids explaining their lateness to class with the excuse that their mother forgot their wake-up call, when a professor finds undergraduates communicating with parents more than 10 times a week, I look back on my once-a-week calls home to the parents I was very close to and wonder if this really counts as progress.

The Meaning of Summer Camp by Nancy Gibbs.