The WIRED Guide to Internet Addiction
The WIRED Guide to Internet Addiction
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
April 23, 201813m 34s
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Show Notes
More than a decade after the first iPhone was released, it suddenly dawned on us that we could be addicted to our smartphones. We'd certainly developed quite the habit: Almost 50 percent of people say they couldn’t live without their phones, which we check every 12 minutes and touch an average of 2,600 times a day. "Likes are “bright dings of pseudo-pleasure” that can be as empty as they are alluring.
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