The people who are closest to a thing are often the most wary of it.

对一件事物最了解的人，往往也对其最警惕。

Technologists know how phones really work, and many have decided they don't want their own children anywhere near them.

技术专家们知道手机的运作原理，所以许多人拿定主意，绝不让自己的孩子靠近手机。

A wariness that has been slowly brewing is turning into a regionwide consensus in Silicon Valley: The benefits of screens as a learning tool are overblown, and the risks for addiction and stunting development seem high.

在硅谷，一种一直在缓慢发酵的警觉正在变成地区性共识：屏幕作为学习工具的好处被夸大了，上瘾和阻碍孩子发育的风险似乎很高。

Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, said earlier this year that he would not let his nephew join social networks.

苹果首席执行官蒂姆·库克今年早些时候表示，他不会让自己的侄子上社交网络。

Bill Gates banned cellphones until his children were teenagers, and Melinda Gates wrote that she wished they had waited even longer.

比尔·盖茨则禁止他的孩子在十几岁前使用手机，而梅琳达·盖茨曾写道，她希望他们可以再晚一些给孩子手机。

"On the scale between candy and crack cocaine, it's closer to crack cocaine," Chris Anderson, the former editor of Wired, said of screens.

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