For the next hour, he was comatose.

I get a lot of flack from my friends about my love of Tik Tok. They are tired of me saying they need to be on it as a creator or educator.

Tik Tok IS the center of the media world, and it still has a lot of room to grow.

It’s also a digital opium den and China could sweaponize the platform at some point in the future.

I recently vacationed with friends. As we were wrapping lunch one day, my friend said, “Watch this.” His 11-year-old son walked to the couch and lay on his side. With his arm extended in front of him cradling his phone, he … went vacant. For the next hour, he was comatose. No signs of life other than his open eyes and an occasional finger swipe. “We have to make him stop, pull him out, every time,” his dad said. My head filled with images of opium dens in China. Something about the stillness, the lying on his side.

I’m sure at some point around 1984 my parents said something similar about me as they watched me endlessly slide the cable box to the left and right to try and find something which would entertain me.

Michael