"Anyone who has ever given an iPad to a small kid knows the kind of thing children find on YouTube before they're able to type: Toy unboxing and nursery rhyme v

"Anyone who has ever given an iPad to a small kid knows the kind of thing children find on YouTube before they're able to type: Toy unboxing and nursery rhyme videos, official and pirated cartoons featuring popular characters like Peppa Pig. It's up to parents, of course, if they are okay with their child getting engrossed in these (we took the iPad away from our four-year-old daughter because we noticed consuming the content made her reluctant to learn to read and irritable when the tablet wasn't within reach). But the stuff Bridle found was arguably worse than what I'd seen before my wife and I made the decision." Something Neal Stephenson remarked in Diamond Age: this kind of tech is not a substitute for parenting.