Innovative Steps to Reclaim a Human Way of Life

For more than a decade we have been running a vast social experiment to see whether the benefits of smart phones outweigh the costs. We have largely let this experiment be waged on our kids, who are in their most formative years, and who can scarcely remember life any other way. It is an experiment that most have conducted passively, rather than deliberately. Consider what any parent would do if someone offered his child a highly addictive substance that would exacerbate his or her insecurities, encourage traits of self-absorption and superficiality, and incline him or her to anxiety and depression. It is hard to imagine any compelling compensatory benefit.