Childhood in a Quantum Age: Navigating Tomorrow's Technologies Today
暫譯: 量子時代的童年：今日導航明日科技
Jane Patel, Nina
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商品描述
This book offers a visionary alternative to the rising calls for tech free childhoods, arguing not for withdrawal from the digital world but for raising children who can meet its complexities with confidence, literacy, and humanity.
Childhood in a Quantum Age reimagines what it means to grow up in a world defined by exponential change, interconnected systems, and boundless possibility. It explores how the dynamics of the Quantum Age such as flux, adaptability, and interconnection are reshaping children's cognitive, emotional, and social development. Drawing on developmental psychology, systems thinking, and futures research, this book offers a roadmap for navigating the complexities of a rapidly evolving world.
It examines the psychological impacts of emerging technologies from virtual reality to artificial intelligence and considers how these tools can both challenge and enhance childhood development. Through evidence based strategies, interdisciplinary insights, and practical applications, the book empowers caregivers, educators, practitioners, and policymakers to prepare children for a future where traditional paradigms no longer apply.
Childhood in a Quantum Age challenges outdated approaches to parenting and education, advocating for a mindset rooted in lifelong learning, creativity, and resilience. It addresses critical issues such as digital safety, the ethics of technology, and the cultivation of future ready skills, offering a holistic framework for raising children who can thrive amid constant flux.
By weaving together visionary ideas and actionable strategies, this book inspires a new narrative for childhood, one that celebrates curiosity, innovation, and the limitless potential of the next generation. A must read for educators, practitioners, caregivers, and parents.
"This book arrives at a critical moment. Around the world, children are navigating digital spaces that are evolving faster than our systems of protection, care, and accountability. Nina Jane Patel offers a vital contribution - a clear, compassionate, and forward-looking framework that helps families, practitioners and policymakers understand the risks and possibilities of childhood in an increasingly complex technological landscape."
- Mama Fatima Singhateh, UN Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children
"Childhood in a Quantum Age makes an essential contribution to our understanding of childhood in a rapidly evolving digital world. Nina Jane Patel brings together research, insight and lived experience to illuminate the complex interplay between technology, identity, and children's emotional development. Her work offers a timely and much-needed framework for parents especially, but also practitioners and policymakers committed to safeguarding and empowering young people in the years ahead."
Professor Julia Davidson OBE, Professor of Criminology
Director of the Institute for Connected Communities
Executive Director of Child Online Harms Policy Think Tank
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本書提供了一種前瞻性的替代方案，回應對於無科技童年日益增長的呼聲，主張不應該撤離數位世界，而是要培養能夠自信、具備數位素養和人性的孩子。
《量子時代的童年》重新想像在一個由指數變化、互聯系統和無限可能性所定義的世界中成長的意義。它探討了量子時代的動態，如變化、適應性和互聯性，如何重塑孩子的認知、情感和社會發展。這本書借鑒了發展心理學、系統思維和未來研究，提供了一個導航快速演變世界複雜性的路線圖。
它檢視了從虛擬實境到人工智慧等新興技術的心理影響，並考慮這些工具如何既能挑戰又能增強童年發展。透過基於證據的策略、跨學科的見解和實用的應用，這本書賦予照顧者、教育工作者、實踐者和政策制定者的能力，以準備孩子面對一個傳統範式不再適用的未來。
《量子時代的童年》挑戰過時的育兒和教育方法，倡導一種根植於終身學習、創造力和韌性的心態。它針對數位安全、科技倫理和未來技能的培養等關鍵議題，提供了一個全面的框架，以培養能在不斷變化中茁壯成長的孩子。
通過將前瞻性的想法和可行的策略結合在一起，這本書激發了一個新的童年敘事，慶祝好奇心、創新和下一代的無限潛力。對於教育工作者、實踐者、照顧者和父母來說，這是一本必讀之作。
「這本書在關鍵時刻問世。全世界的孩子們正在導航數位空間，而這些空間的演變速度超過了我們的保護、照顧和問責系統。Nina Jane Patel 提供了一個重要的貢獻——一個清晰、富有同情心且面向未來的框架，幫助家庭、實踐者和政策制定者理解在日益複雜的科技環境中童年的風險和可能性。」
- Mama Fatima Singhateh, 聯合國兒童販賣和性剝削特別報告員
「《量子時代的童年》對於我們理解在快速演變的數位世界中的童年做出了重要貢獻。Nina Jane Patel 將研究、見解和生活經驗結合在一起，闡明了科技、身份和孩子情感發展之間的複雜相互作用。她的工作為父母，尤其是致力於保護和賦權年輕人的實踐者和政策制定者，提供了一個及時且急需的框架。」
- Professor Julia Davidson OBE, 犯罪學教授
互聯社區研究所所長
兒童網路傷害政策智庫執行主任
作者簡介
Nina Jane Patel is a movement psychotherapist, researcher, and mother of four whose work bridges clinical practice, academic inquiry, and international advocacy. With more than two decades of experience, she has supported children and families across schools, healthcare settings, and prisons, helping them build resilience and navigate complex developmental challenges. She also works directly with families affected by trauma related to digital harms, offering strategies for healing and adaptation in an era of rapid technological change.
Her academic research investigates how immersive technologies, artificial intelligence, and emerging quantum innovations are reshaping childhood, identity, and mental health. As the founder of My Guardian Global, Nina integrates therapeutic insight, systems thinking, and technological literacy to help families and institutions prepare for the future of human development.
Nina serves as an advisor to the UK's Child Online Harms Policy Think Tank at the University of East London (UEL), a subject matter expert for the Zero Abuse Project (US), and lead advisor for the Virtual Reality Risks Against Children (UK) initiative. She collaborates with the World Economic Forum and Interpol on issues of child safety in digital environments, and her work is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. She also contributes to Yves Saint Laurent/L'Oréal's Abuse Is Not Love campaign, bringing her expertise in trauma, safety, and technology facilitated violence to global conversations on gender based violence.
Her insights have been featured widely in global media, including NBC News, CNN, BBC, The Washington Post, Elle, and Vogue. A frequent speaker at international conferences on technology, Nina writes from both professional expertise and lived experience as a parent. She offers caregivers, educators, and policymakers a framework for equipping children to thrive in a world of profound technological transformation.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
妮娜·簡·帕特爾（Nina Jane Patel）是一位運動心理治療師、研究者及四位孩子的母親，她的工作融合了臨床實踐、學術研究和國際倡導。擁有超過二十年的經驗，她在學校、醫療機構和監獄中支持兒童和家庭，幫助他們建立韌性並應對複雜的發展挑戰。她還直接與受到數位傷害相關創傷影響的家庭合作，提供在快速技術變革時代中療癒和適應的策略。
她的學術研究探討沉浸式技術、人工智慧和新興量子創新如何重塑童年、身份和心理健康。作為My Guardian Global的創始人，妮娜整合了治療洞察、系統思維和技術素養，幫助家庭和機構為人類發展的未來做好準備。
妮娜擔任英國東倫敦大學（University of East London, UEL）兒童網路傷害政策智庫的顧問，並且是零虐待計畫（Zero Abuse Project, US）的主題專家，以及虛擬實境對兒童風險（Virtual Reality Risks Against Children, UK）倡議的首席顧問。她與世界經濟論壇和國際刑警合作，關注數位環境中的兒童安全問題，她的工作得到了加拿大藝術委員會的支持。她還參與了伊夫·聖羅蘭（Yves Saint Laurent）/巴黎萊雅（L'Oréal）的「虐待不是愛」（Abuse Is Not Love）運動，將她在創傷、安全和技術促進的暴力方面的專業知識帶入全球關於性別暴力的對話中。
她的見解在全球媒體上廣泛報導，包括NBC新聞、CNN、BBC、華盛頓郵報、Elle和Vogue。作為國際技術會議的常客演講者，妮娜從專業知識和作為家長的生活經驗中撰寫內容。她為照顧者、教育工作者和政策制定者提供了一個框架，以幫助兒童在深刻的技術變革世界中茁壯成長。
