Silicon Valley Inventors also Fear Impact of New Apps on children

San Francisco, California Teachers Pension Fund wrote to Apple Computers recently, “The days of just throwing technology out there and washing your hands off the potential impact are over”

One of Twitter’s early investor said, “internet is terrible and internet is broken”. Facebook early investors are saying that social media is destroying the brains of our children.

Just few years ago, Tech-economy, digital world and internet was hailed as the only way to future progress and economic prosperity. Computing and mobile devices were road to advancement. Silicon Valley companies and their inventions were impacting everything in society. They were most welcome future leaders of mankind.

But now many of the early inventors  and founders of Silicon Valley are questioning their effect on society in critical issues of human development.

California Teachers Pension Fund Is one of the biggest technology investors in the world. Their belief that excessive technology has an effect on our society, is alarming Silicon Valley inventors. Abusive behavior on social media has created political unrest, destroying reputation of innocent, pornography filling our small screens.Parents of 5 years to 15 year old find themselves facing challenge of protecting their children from permanent damages that were unthinkable only 5 years ago. One of the pension fund letters says that long-term health of a company is “inextricably linked” with its youngest customers, our children, and society at large.

But everyday new mobile devices and new apps are harming the society beyond imagination. A professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sherry Turkle says, “You see some like people not sending their children to schools that use  iPad for teaching”.

Common Sense Media, a research group recently reported that over 50% of teenagers feel that they are addicted to their mobile devices.

Some tech executives do admit that their devices were made to be addictive, and no one knows how much they damage the brains of our young ones.