Raising a baby is hard. But technology sure is making it easier. Each and every time I calm down my grade schooler with an episode of Adventure Time that starts exactly when we need it, or watch a friend keep her fussy toddler busy with a phone, I wonder how on earth the moms before us did it. How did they manage without slow cookers and microwaves and dishwashers? Without iPads and Androids, televisions and tracking devices?
The future’s looking even brighter for Millennial moms and dads, who grew up on electronics and now are starting to ask for — and to invent! — devices that do everything from soothing