Wonderful article, Marelise! 
Perhaps our technologists need to abide by the same principle as lawmakers are expected to: Don't consider the good that a particular technology (law) can do once implemented, rather consider the danger it may pose if abused!

Oh, also: "Who am I to stop a generation of teenagers from escaping a few excruciating rites of passage? (Although, if I have a vote, I’m going to have to insist that they all go to at least one terrible small-town bar and do the YMCA.) " -- that's BRILLIANT!!