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Temptations of a digital world

3 April 2024

1:43 AM

3 April 2024

1:43 AM

In his recent book, The Anxious Generation, the American psychologist Jonathan Haidt warns about the debilitating and destructive impact of mobile phones and the virtual world on children and adolescents.

As I warned in 2014, the digital world, while incredibly tempting and widely endorsed, represents a Faustian bargain guaranteed to cause more harm than good.

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