I think everyone has realized this by now.
We're figuring out that facebook is evil, we're figuring out that our employers don't like us having 'fun', we're realizing this, and that, and coming into the realization that this is not our parent's world, not even the world our education proposes to have prepared us for, to be, in many cases, preparing us for.
I think we're still realizing, all of us, in a very big way, that the world is suddenly less fuzzy. It is, as the article proposed, a brutal village.
No. They don't care whether you're having fun. They care about whether you're doing what they're paying you to do. They want to avoid anything that interferes with that.
> the realization that this is not our parent's world
Mostly it is. You do have smart phones to replace the snazzy digital watches that distinguished them from their parents.