Personally, I think this article is full of a kind of techno-utopianism. For example with the smart phone revolution the technology has been deployed extremely

Personally, I think this article is full of a kind of techno-utopianism. For example with the smart phone revolution the technology has been deployed extremely rapidly to billions (!) of people. In less than a generation we've gone from nearly zero to people and in particular children (hey I pretty commonly see infants with iPads positioned in front of their faces on the bus) spending the majority of their waking life in front of these devices. And because of this extreme speed of deployment we have no data on any long term developmental effects of this. The little slivers of research on some of these effects that we have do not look particularly great. As such, I think we have the opposite problem from what the article suggests. We happily approve and deploy many technologies and find out about the environmental, health, mental and other hazards the hard way many years later.