Suzanne Harrington: Smartphones are like neural heroin for teenagers

We are realising that actually, giving a child a smartphone is not doing anyone – except tech companies – any favours.

We are realising that actually, giving a child a smartphone is not doing anyone (except tech companies) any favours

Everyone from the UN to the newest classroom assistant will tell you the same thing about kids and smartphones: They don’t work well
together.

That is, they work so well together that they take over kids’ brains, colonising their neural pathways so effectively that it causes kids to live inside the world of their devices rather than here on Earth.