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Rhode57 I think as we mature into bus-pass age we find it harder to cope with a world that has always been changing, but changing at an ever-faster rate.
I am not sure that "technology" (a word I try to abjure) is quite the demon it is often said to be. Many young people do have broader lives than merely staring at a screen in the confines of their bedroom, and many more probably would if given the opportunity.
Opportunity, or its lack, may be the problem; partly as you say denied it by fearing hazards that always existed but are now much more talked about and even systematically exaggerated; but also from lack of money. I doubt the world is really any more dangerous for children than it was 50 years, a 100 years,... ago; but you and I are from a generation that seems to have been generally, relatively better-off than now.
