How technology is changing childhood

Young people will never know what life was like before the digital age, and childhoods are now shaped as much by screen based activities as they are by schools.

The Spectator, in partnership with Microsoft invited guests to this frank and fair discussion on whether children and adolescents who are ‘always-on’ are able to distinguish fully between their real and virtual worlds? Is excessive screen time damaging brain development? Or is technology creating a vastly superior learning environment?

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