Viewpoint: Hacking childhood: will future technologies undermine, or enable, optimal early childhood development?
SOURCE: Archives of Disease in Childhood
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2021
TITLE AUTHOR(S): R.C.Hughes, S.S.Bhopal, A.A.Manu, A.C.Van Heerden
KEYWORDS: CHILDREN, COVID-19, EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT (ECD), INNOVATION, TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 9812205
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/19314
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/19314
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2021
TITLE AUTHOR(S): R.C.Hughes, S.S.Bhopal, A.A.Manu, A.C.Van Heerden
KEYWORDS: CHILDREN, COVID-19, EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT (ECD), INNOVATION, TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 9812205
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/19314
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/19314
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Abstract
It's 2041. Children born during the COVID-19 pandemic are graduating (virtually). For several decades, the internet has been part of everyday adult lives. But now, of course, so much more has changed, including for our children. It's almost impossible to tell exactly when we really lost control. Where once, parents (mainly mothers) were considered primary caregivers, now child rearing is largely the domain of machines guided by the algorithms.-
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