Everyone who is into "we keep using oil no matter what, shut the fuck up" gets scared and guess what - controllable. Tactic sounds familiar? That's because it should
That (Youtube and Instagram etc. ) contributes, no doubt, but not a deciding factor. Way to check: is it possible to produce smart people from kids using electronic educational media without restrictions? May answer is "Yes, there is a way to do that" as in "no law of nature prevents this from happening"
But education is veery fucked. Not just in US. For many decades, in many ways. And this is not going to be fixed with changing print books to laptops, vice versa or with any other superficial way of pretending to care.
I wish enough people understood this (edit: this does not refer to you, but to people in general. Many don't even burden themselves with the matter)
Nah, don't buy it. Paper does not produce smart people via some magic, screen does not produce dumb people via some magic. This works in a different, but fairly simple way
substitute "Windows" with "computer". If you have any history of resolving "this doesn't work for me" on your own (as opposed to waiting for someone else do to it for you), you will be fine. Just be sure not to jump into unknown when you have urgent important things to do :)
Unrelated to the topic: I never understood this, because only a fool thinks in non-absolutes
(it is possible to find examples of how Sith were smart and brave enough to see ugly reality for what it is, but I am not that deep into Star Wars lore)
And it will. Why do you think they explained to me how car works long before I ever sat in a driver's seat?