addiction
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Our zombie-like modern addiction to screens isn’t as new as you may think.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
“What looks like addiction is usually a shift in how reward is structured in a teenager’s life,” O’Reilley told me.
From Slate • May 12, 2026
"As long as it doesn't take away somebody's right to choose, then I'm down for any kind of safeguarding measures that protect people who are already very vulnerable through addiction."
From BBC • May 10, 2026
In March, app-addicted Indonesia started enforcing a social media ban for under-16s in a bid to shield some 70 million children from the threats of online pornography, cyberbullying and internet addiction.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
In the case of technology, phone use or Internet addiction, he says he hears lots of versions of a story in which someone loses the phone for a day, or the power goes out.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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