I don’t think this is obvious - I have kids and this is a constant battle. If you take the devices away they are along and isolated and it’s so much worse.

Some schools have these rules, but unless they are practically enforced, kids get around it.

I worry these laws will result in the worse of both worlds.

We need really well moderated forums for kids, along with practical bans for everything else.

I’m not sure how that happens.

Is it insane? I'm working in this field, and I know how quickly you can come up with such a number if you are BMW and you are deathly afraid that someone will get electrocuted while working on your car, driving it or rescuing someone in a crash. It's a safety and liability issue, where they go to great lengths to actually re-certify a battery after crash. The whole thing is setup so, that even the dummy electricians in an average BMW shop can safely certify that this battery is still safe. It's a lot easier to kill yourself (or someone else) when working on a EV Battery than wet belt. Also a lot harder to repair said battery than wet belt. And that goes for all EVs and manufacturers that actually care about people (Tesla, demonstrably does not).

CGI and Photoshop filters were 'fake' too. Until they weren't.

Every single time {something more convenient} got invented, the supports of the {older, less convenient thing} would criticize it to death.

Oil painting was considered serious art now. Probably the most serious medium in traditional art schools. But at Michelangelo's time he insisted to use fresco because he believed oil was "an art for women and for leisurely and idle people like Fra Sebastiano."[0]

Forward 100 years, oil replaced tempera and fresco.

Another example: Frank Frazetta insisted he didn't use references, except he did all the time[1]. Why? We'll never know the exact reason, but it might be that using photos as references was considered 'lesser.' And now it's completely normal, even the norm.

Looking back through art history, gen-AI art seems awfully inevitable.

[0]: https://www.studiointernational.com/michelangelo-and-sebasti...

[1]: https://www.frazettagirls.com/blogs/blog/frank-frazetta-refe...

I spent years getting over the idea of saving some half broken thing because “I might need a part from that later”