What is sad is that if any field should have seen what was coming, it was ours: the attention economy, the polarization, the rewiring of a generation’s relationship to truth. While the platforms were doing it, we were, for the most part, running careful studies on whether interactive whiteboards improved test scores on the fractions unit, investigating teachers’ beliefs/perceptions about educational technology, researching short-term uses of technology and its short-term effects, or conducting small-scale studies with little if any long-term impact.