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Apple investors urge action on 'smartphone addiction'
Big investors have called on Apple to develop software that limits how long children can use its smartphones.
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.
Are digital distractions harming labour productivity?
The evidence is mixed; it seems clear, however, that they are making us unhappier
The sad truth is that Facebook and Google have behaved irresponsibly in the pursuit of massive profits. And this has come at a cost to our health
Ex-Facebook Chief Sean Parker Warns Site Was Built To Exploit People’s Weaknesses
34 years ago, a KGB defector chillingly predicted modern America
How has social media played a part in demoralization? What is happening to our capacity to think?
First published 8 January 2018
Michael Mackintosh
Author · meditation teacher · founder of Digital Detox
Michael has spent much of his working life online—and much of the rest of it trying to stop that technology taking over. He has thrown a phone into a lake, locked devices in boxes and experimented with long periods offline. He writes about what helped, what failed and how to keep the useful parts of digital life.