Many kids, particularly in lower-income families, would actually benefit from more structured activities. Plenty of children, especially teenagers, thrive on a busy schedule. But just as other trappings of modern childhood, from homework to technology, are subject to the law of diminishing returns, there is a danger of overscheduling the young.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

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