From John Koster, Santa Cruz, California, US
The article “Digital damage?” misses the real danger to children from screen time – the extremely sophisticated marketing that sucks them into ruthless games that have no socially redeeming value. They are being purposely led deeper and deeper into a highly cloistered digital environment and away from being able to develop discrimination regarding how they spend the limited time we have on this beautiful Earth (22 June, p 31).
In order to be healthy, we need to develop a traditional relationship with nature and read the printed word, such as books. Unless parents and society take a stand on this, the end result is certainly increasingly larger new generations of easily manipulated consumeristic sheep.
