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It's the Adults, Not the Kids!
“You [the average tech user] didn’t make the iPhone. It’s not your fault. I never said it’s your fault. I’m saying it’s your responsibility. This stuff isn’t going away. In some form or other, it’s here to stay. What choice do we have? We have to adapt. That’s our only option.”
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
The world is bad for many reasons. But you can't address them if you can't look up from your phone.
Kieran McLean • Yes, It Really, Really Is the Phones
The intrusion of smartphones and social media are not the only changes that have deformed childhood. There’s an important backstory, beginning as long ago as the 1980s, when we started systematically depriving children and adolescents of freedom, unsupervised play, responsibility, and opportunities for risk taking, all of which promote competence,
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