Opinion

It’s time to stop the smartphone experiment on our children

China has been way ahead of the west in seeing the dangers of raising a generation of zombies.

Camilla CavendishContributor

Mar 31, 2024 – 9.37am

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Imagine that a James Bond villain decided to achieve world domination not with armies or drones but through our brains. They might manipulate our minds to get us addicted to fantasy worlds, turn us against one another and reduce our ability to concentrate.

Inventing the smartphone would do it. Then persuading us to give it to our children.

Financial Times