I chose this image because it could represent the overly-connected world of the digital natives. The components are all arranged and wired, deriving their purpose and energy from the other surrounding components and outside energy source rather than their own individuality, time for reflective thinking, and more complicated relationships off of the circuit board. The author of The Dumbest Generation speaks to this in his introduction: "Instead of opening young American minds to the stores of civilization and science and politics, technology has contracted their horizons to themselves..."
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