> I spent my career at Microsoft trying to imagine what technology could do, and still I wasn’t prepared for smartphones and social media There is a certain ir

> I spent my career at Microsoft trying to imagine what technology could do, and still I wasn’t prepared for smartphones and social media There is a certain irony in her opening statement regarding Microsoft's lack of vision in these two spaces. I think there a have been some unforeseen consequences of these but even when I was a teen, kids would spend hours each day on the phone, or on the computer playing games - some even online - or watching TV. I feel like the fundamental interpersonal dynamic really hasn't changed that much, and I say this as a parent of young kids and a friend of lots of parents with teenagers.