Today, I’d argue that we can take this even further: if you wanted to invent a device that could rewire our brains, if you wanted to create a society of people who were perpetually distracted, burned out, and overtired, if you wanted to weaken our ability to focus, remember, and engage in deep thought, if you wanted to increase our rates of loneliness, anxiety, depression, self-absorption, and self-harm, if you wanted to reduce empathy and creativity, encourage polarization and extremism, and damage our most important relationships, you’d likely end up with a smartphone.
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