Try explaining Pokemon Go to kids in war-torn areas

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-interesting closing BANG contrasting a human face with a cartoon to bring our the writer's reservations about technology...

-I'll be doing evaluation with you soon, and this is an instance of evaluation premised upon pointing out that the view works only if a pre-condition is satisfied, which may not be the case....

"Constantly, we are being sold new apps and tools that are meant to make our lives more pleasant and liveable. But such a promise holds true only if there was already a pre-existing reality of a life deemed normal as defined by the Internet."

-does filter bubble ring a bell here? recall that it is a downside of the new media:
"We should never forget, however, that this virtual world to which we are being dragged into is also a cocoon and a bubble that isolates us from the goings-on in other parts of the world, where a teenager's "crisis" may not be that his or her learning material has not been uploaded on the website fast enough, but that his school has been bombed and his teachers killed."

-note of coz the central theme here which is the digital divide created by technology....