In "The Disappearance of Insight," Keil investigates how rapid technological change is shaping the world around us

In 1960, the insides of thermostats, cameras, and clocks revealed how they worked. Today, their insides are indecipherable circuit boards. As psychologist Frank Keil notes, younger generations have been raised amid these opaque technologies and black-box AI systems and, as such, have lost direct access to causal understanding. How can we prepare children to find insights and cognitive agency in a world of ever-shrinking opportunities to learn how things work?

—and what this means for our children and their futures. "A striking analysis of childhood and cognition in today’s technology-saturated world." — Tania Lombrozo, author of "Why We Ask Why" Learn more: https://mitpress.mit.edu/.../the-disappearance-of-insight