Brainwashed Children ?

Okay, so I want to get other people's opinions in the comments below for this one...Do you believe that electronics are hurting or helping young children? My boyfriend legit sat me down last night and said, "Amb, let's talk about our future kids since you always seem to want to talk about that." And in my head I'm like "Finally he sees it my way and we can start to get excited about our future together and talk about our plans"...He brought up the matter of electronics with young kids just because he saw my 3 year old brother screaming and crying because his game on the Kindle didn't upload. Which yesss I agree, but not really something I wanted to talk about when it came to my future kids..

My 4 year old cousin new how to work the iPad better than I did when she was only 2! She is amazingly smart and comical at that, but she is an incredible young girl. Now that she's 4 she can legit take her own selfies and pics of her momma posing...it's a good talent to have but at 4 taking selfies? Good or bad? I think it's semi-good, if that makes sense, because I believe all the apps on the iPad really did help to increase her intelligence and her well rounded-ness. She still is very much a sociable person and loves being around and talking to other people.

My boyfriend believes that we shouldn't expose them to all of the electronics at such a young age, that we need to treat them like children and leave the technology for when they're a little older because that's how we were raised. How having common knowledge and learning hands on lessons with daddy is way more valuable than anything an iPad can teach. I can agree with him on learning and growing humble and more of a human when those things aren't intruding on your life, but I don't think we need to cut them off entirely. He was raised that way and know he barely knows how to use my laptop, I call him a dinosaur because of that, but he is soo much more smarter in some other areas so it kinda evens out haha.

My brother is a little bit more smarter because of the learning apps on his Kindle, but he is a bit spoiled by it. Whenever he gets upset or mad my parents just throw the Kindle at him to shut him up and it works. I have mixed feelings about this because hey it seems to be working for him, but is it the correct way to handle the situation?

What's your take on this? I would love to hear opinions?!