Trying to surveil your kid is a fool’s errand: in the same way you were able to fly under the radar of your parents’ watchful eye, your kids can do the same with you. It’s what being a kid is all about.

Raising children today is as hard as it’s ever been. Here are 8 parenting tips guaranteed to make your efforts easier (or at least give you some things to consider as you try to make your peace with cellphones and gaming consoles). 

A child’s digital dossier is created long before they are able to consent to their “image” being distributed to a global network of friends, family, and possibly strangers. Globally distributed and then integrated into a digital archive that stores, remembers, and shares everything across a lifetime. 

Humans have been creating children and struggling to raise them right for millennia. The overarching main goal that whole time? To create and refine a child who won’t embarrass you. And will take care of you in old age. That was true 100 years ago and it’s true today. 

Phones (all tech, really) need to sleep in a room separate from its users, just like cars do. It makes for the best kind of sleep for humans. And phones.

Walk into the future with technology and not under its command.

It’s 2017, of course you are. We are all TechnoHumans.

I have been thinking recently about what my world will be like when I stop having the day-to-day conversations that currently fill in the small spaces of life.

The immigrants we should fear aren’t human, rather they are an army of "silver people" coming in various forms (AI, VR, and AR are just a few examples) to take our jobs, further shape our behaviors, and even change how we see ourselves as humans.