Smartphones are making us unhealthy, miserable, antisocial, and less free. If we can’t yet nationalize the attention economy, maybe it’s time to abolish its primary tool — before it finishes abolishing us.| jacobin.com
The social psychologist discusses the “great rewiring” of children’s brains, why social-media companies are to blame, and how to reverse course.| The New Yorker
Camps once sold a story about social improvement. Now we just can’t conceive of an unscheduled moment.| The New Yorker
Increasingly, data is sidelined in a debate that's becoming about fear, personalities, and insults.| grimoiremanor.substack.com
A burgeoning cottage industry caters to beleaguered smartphone users desperate to escape their screens.| The New Yorker