I think this is well stated: "The cognitive impacts of smartphone adoption are documented... So where's the real disagreement? His diagnosis: screen culture inherently biases toward poorer quality thought. As he puts it, "the general bias of a screen culture is towards poorer quality thought and information." The medium itself degrades cognition. My diagnosis: we've built extractive attention economies that exploit cognitive vulnerabilities for profit, and we're blaming the victims of this extraction for their own exploitation. The problem isn't screens; it's what we've designed screens to do." Image: Kidtown Melbourne.
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