Today is Saturday, January 23rd.

Has your relationship with technology changed during this pandemic?

And if you're a parent, are your kids spending more time in front of screens?

Today we're talking about the potential effects of living in a much more digital world.

The good and bad we might experience now and the withdrawal we might feel later.

You'll learn how it might influence children in a bit.

But first we talk about the impact on us, adults, with Dr. Keith Humphreys. He's a professor

of psychiatry at Stanford University and an addiction expert. Here's our conversation.

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I'm Erica Mandy.

It's time for today's special edition Saturday. You ready? Let's do this.

Dr Keith Humphreys, thank you so much for coming on the newsworthy.

Very happy to be here. So what's your take on the impact of more screen time, more virtual interaction because

of the pandemic that we've dealt with for almost a year now?

It's something we've had to do really by necessity and sometimes for our

work and sometimes for our kids schooling. What I'm most concerned about is that

whether we adopt these necessities

as our permanent way of life,

which I think would be unfortunate

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