The Social Dilemma
Netflix

If you’re worried (and what parent isn’t?) about the amount of time your child spends staring at a screen – then the creative minds behind Facebook, Google, Instagram, Snapchat and the rest have some tough-love advice for you. “In my family, we pretty well maintain a screen-free zone,” says one former Silicon Valley genius. Another recommends not allowing a child access to screen time until they are 16.

On and on they came in Netflix’s brilliant feature documentary, The Social Dilemma, the articulate gurus, investors and creators of social media who now gaze with horror on the monster they have created. Most of them still look about 22. How exciting it was at the beginning to be there for its birth but now they view the escalating, out-of-control results as an apocalypse.