Today's children are not raised by their parents. Computers raise them.

The sad truth.

Dedrick Conway
4 min readAug 24, 2021

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Times have changed drastically and irrationally over the decades. The traditional ways of life are slowly fading due to the digital age and technological advancements. That said, please think of how much technology is integrated into our society and how imperative it is to use for our personal and professional lives.

We need technology, but the need has turned into an addiction. We could not seem to live without it if there was a choice because we have created an attachment to AI and the computers themselves. I mean that we have become used to having a laptop of some sort, and without one, we are merely nothing. Our lives have gone digital, most of our learning is done digitally, our communication has become digital, and we hold our digital world to a higher standard than our natural world look at how we treat it. With a global pandemic detrimentally affecting our planet and isolation at an all-time high, the need for technology has risen, and so does mental isolation.

What does this have to do with children being raised by a computer? With the technological age still expanding, societal shifts, and mental isolation of Individuals, all people have is their computer, which could be a phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop computer. With individuals…

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Dedrick Conway

Dedrick C. is a serial entrepreneur, indie author, ghostwriter, and artist expressing his perspectives through evocative literary artistry. Top writer in Art!