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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Anna Davis

The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt review: The awful power of smartphones on children

Forget horror; this is one of the most terrifying books I have read. We all know our phones aren’t great for us, but Jonathan Haidt sets out their true cost in such excruciating detail you will want to look away instead of a mind-numbing scroll through Instagram.

Smartphones, he argues, are addictive, disrupt sleep, fragment attention and deprive people of real-world interaction.

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