> “Parents say they want to be involved, but the children have overtaken them,” she says. “That’s awful. We must be like the first generation whose children learnt to read and write, and we’re all blundering about like illiterate ignoramuses.”
I think this is a fascinating quote, because the analogy seems extremely apt to me. Yet she somehow thinks this is a bad thing, as if the invention of literacy was some kind of terrible event, rather than a blossoming of the human intellect.
The younger generations are doing amazing things that the older generations couldn't have even imagined, but her only reaction to this incredible transformation is to say "That's awful."
That's an extremely prejudiced reading of that quote.
She clearly describes the [applying the metaphor] technologically illiterate as akin to ignoramuses.
It's clearly not the benefits of technological literacy that is the motivator to preventing young children from being exposed to hardcore pornography.
If some people were saying we shouldn't allow hardcore porn magazines to be sold to children; your argument would be like saying those people are advocating destroying all forms of printed media.
I think this is a fascinating quote, because the analogy seems extremely apt to me. Yet she somehow thinks this is a bad thing, as if the invention of literacy was some kind of terrible event, rather than a blossoming of the human intellect.
The younger generations are doing amazing things that the older generations couldn't have even imagined, but her only reaction to this incredible transformation is to say "That's awful."