When I talk to parents of children at Steiner schools, they are often concerned about how much time they should allow their children to spend ‘on screens’. This concern is often centred on whether lack of technology use may harm their future prospects.

We live in a World where digital technology plays an ever-increasing part in the most fundamental aspects of day-to-day life. Indeed, it could be said that our lives, as we live them now, could not exist were it not for technology.