Remember Susan Linn? She was the puppeteer for Audrey Duck on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood….
Today, she’s a child psychologist — still focused on nurturing children’s emotions and imagination, while writing books warning parents about the dangers of screen time.
In an interview onThe Sport of Lifepodcast, she shares a story of being on a panel with a high school teacher talking about video games.
“You know,” said the teacher, “I live in New York City and my daughter has never built a tree house until she built one with Minecraft.”
To which Linn couldn’t help replying,
“Well, she still hasn’t built a tree house.”
Despite acknowledging some positives to Minecraft’s world-building platform, Linn laments,
“I mean the idea that we don’t differentiate between what happens on a screen and what happens in real life… that’s bizarre and troubling.”
“And one thing that is… happening now, that we all have to be braced for, is the metaverse. Which is going to be more compelling than the screens are now and more lifelike. But it’s not real-life, and it is controlled by corporations.”
Linn’s words almost sound like they are describing Metaverse Inc. — the virtual reality company I depict in my near-future novel,All the Humans Are Sleeping:
Source: Global Research
