I think this is a lazy journalistic essay that desperately tries to sell feelings of fear and nostalgia with no real substance. I have not seen any reason to be

I think this is a lazy journalistic essay that desperately tries to sell feelings of fear and nostalgia with no real substance. I have not seen any reason to believe that people who 'grow up with' a technology treat it any other way than people who were already adults at the time when the technology was introduced. Not in any fundamental way - they sometimes make more extensive use of the new technology. For any of the earth shattering novelties that appeared in the last few decades, you will find that after they established themselves, people of all ages, regardless of whether they were children or adult when the technology was introduced, use it in very similar ways. When I have to divide the quality of use people I know make of the Internet (which became pervasive and popular around the time when I transitioned from adolescence to adulthood), for example, it seems to me that the divisions are more along professional lines, or interest, than age. I know people in their 50s, 60s and even 80s who make frequent and engaged use of most internet technologies, and young people, born into a world in which the net is everywhere, who make only casual and uninspired use of it. I think I know the reason for it, too. Technological innovation is usually not something created by children. Even the youngest inventors and developers are at least old enough to be called young adults. The needs they see, their values and their incentives are all linked directly to the world they live in - a world in which people several decades older than them, as well as some younger, live.