I just finished reading the nicely thought provoking "App Generation" co-authored by Howard Gardner and Katie Davis, that asks and answers and asks again important questions about how society's increasing reliance on apps impacts identity, intimacy, and imagination, particularly within adolescents. Their work underscores the importance of helping our upcoming generation become app "enabled" instead of app "dependent", and gave me a lot of ideas about how to talk about apps and their development when I teach App Inventor this upcoming January. In particular, it helped me see how in many ways, apps are the technology equivalent of fast food, quick, easy to access processed bites that used in appropriate measure, can make getting through day to day life less stressful. But, a steady stream of it leads to diminishing returns, narrowing what you know and handing over control of knowledge to sources that may or may not have your best interest at heart. For example, my app teaching focus will be to introduce "big questions", such as "Is it really necessary to automate information access?" and "Who should decide what is important for us to know?" Gardner and Davis sum it up nicely, suggesting that having an app dependent life risks narrowing our experiences to pre-defined ways to achieve what is important and "if we are fortunate enough to have the right ensemble of apps ... for living a certain life... could that just right ensemble lead to a wholly hAPPy life?".