Nick Szabo  🔑

This is not a behaviour that is justifiably emulated. These people can afford to ignore all technology for the foreseeable future and are shielded by their fortunes. It is stupid to think that disconnecting kids from technology in their formative years is good because Gates does.

They're disconnecting their kids from the addictive media culture of the internet that they created and more naive parents addict their kids to. It is unlikely that they are disconnecting them from the supply side of tech, e.g. learning how to program a computer or bank online.

No, they aren't. They are inculcating them in an isolationist elitist culture and implying that the technology that often *governs* the lives of normal people—but not them—is a danger during the kids' formative years.