The glue that holds this connected world together is, of course, the internet. And while many adults came of age at a time when getting onto the internet involved sitting at a desk and suffering through a minute of ear-piercing squeaks and squeals, children now move through a society where the internet is everywhere—at home, at school, on the street, on screen after screen, day after day.

What is this perpetual exposure doing to them? How does it affect kids’ thoughts, bend their behavior, and alter their development, if it does any of these things at all? In advance of an April 25 Zócalo/UCLA event on the potential pitfalls of kids’ ample time online—“Is the Internet Turning Kids Into Zombies?”—we posed the following question to four experts who think a lot about web use: What is constant internet exposure doing to kids’ brains? What are the advantages and disadvantages?

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