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This week, is modern technology destroying the lives

of a generation of children? It's not much more than 15 years. The smartphone has transformed

our world. An ever-connected planet has shrunk distance, made complex tasks simple, and open up a

universe of information and entertainment. For most of us, our phones have

become the essential tools of our modern existence. But the damage done by the combination of

the ubiquitous phone and mass social media is also becoming clearer, especially for young

people, for whom it has dramatically changed social behavior at a critical stage in their

formation. Studies,

and some of us would say, well-worn parental experience, have shown that many teenagers and

even younger children spend hours a day on their phones, scrolling endlessly through images

and stories, propelled their way through algorithms specifically designed by tech companies to

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