--- title: Five Best Ideas: Don't Buy Your Kids Internet-Connected Toys description: Don’t buy your kids internet-connected toys, the morality of leaks has changed and more. canonical: https://time.com/4685443/dont-buy-your-kids-internet-connected-toys/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-28T17:00:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:01.965Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Don't Buy Your Kids Internet-Connected Toys og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4685443/dont-buy-your-kids-internet-connected-toys/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Don't Buy Your Kids Internet-Connected Toys twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Don't Buy Your Kids Internet-Connected Toys by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 28, 2017 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 28, 2017 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Don’t buy your kids internet-connected toys.**](https://qz.com/920482/dont-buy-your-kids-internet-connected-toys/) By Mike Murphy in _Quartz_ **2\.** [**While the laws on leaking secrets haven’t changed, the moral calculus around them has.**](http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/02/28/some-leaks-are-necessary-flynn-fbi-russia-gabriel-schoenfeld-column/98453310/) By Gabriel Schoenfeld in _USA Today_ **3\.** [**Populism might be surging around the world, but don’t write off the European Union.**](http://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/?fa=68118) By Judy Dempsey at _Carnegie Europe_ **4\.** [**On the edge of drought-stricken desert, this technology pulls drinking water from fog.**](https://www.fastcoexist.com/3068531/these-massive-floating-nets-capture-fog-and-turn-it-into-drinking-water) By Eillie Anzilotti in _Fast Co.Exist_ **5\.** [**It’s been 45 years since we last went to the moon. Here’s how to get back — for good.**](https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/how-to-get-back-to-the-moon-in-4-years-this-time-to-stay/) By Howard Bloom in _Scientific American_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4685443/dont-buy-your-kids-internet-connected-toys/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4685443/dont-buy-your-kids-internet-connected-toys/"},"headline":"Don't Buy Your Kids Internet-Connected Toys","datePublished":"2017-02-28T17:00:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:01.965Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4685443/dont-buy-your-kids-internet-connected-toys/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","European Union","Innovation","Space","Internet","Water","leaks"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4685443/dont-buy-your-kids-internet-connected-toys/","name":"Don't Buy Your Kids Internet-Connected Toys"}}]}] ```