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Los Angeles Review of Books 8Fayle 9

 

The behavioral indicators of chemical dependency align quite well with our near-constant interaction with smartphones. Add to this the sophistication and economic muscle Silicon Valley spends on rewiring our neurological circuitry to make us crave more time with our devices and it now looks like our attachment is incurable.
-- Taylor Fayle. Walking Alone: On "Digital Minimalism" (review of Cal Newport's Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World) Los Angeles Review of Books (June 10, 2019).
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