A phrase surfaced in this week’s Meta trial that’s hard to forget: in its own internal messages, the company reportedly called young users “the best ones.” In this segment we look forward, calmly and without hysteria, at what it means to raise the first generation whose attention was shaped from the start by systems engineered to capture it — why the science is still genuinely debated, why the incentive behind it won’t disappear whoever wins the case, and why the real answer isn’t panic but refusing to treat a child’s attention as a resource to be harvested.
