Recent testimony to the US Senate on “cognitive decline” and educational technology has reignited a familiar debate: whether screens are eroding young people’s capacity to think, and whether technology itself is inherently detrimental to learning. The clip has been widely shared on LinkedIn as a serious intervention. But I see it slightly differently: less as a definitive verdict, and more as a useful provocation, even if its conclusions, in my view, are subtantially off-target.