The Anxious Generation
How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
The rewiring of childhood around smartphones and social media, and the mental-health crisis that followed a play-based upbringing's collapse.
Jonathan Haidt argues that the rewiring of childhood around smartphones and social media has fuelled a mental-health crisis among young people. He contrasts a ‘play-based childhood’ with the ‘phone-based childhood’ that replaced it, and proposes concrete norms for families, schools, and tech. Data-heavy and urgent, the book has become a rallying point in debates over kids and screens.
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Bill Gates
Reading Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation has made me wonder: Would I have developed this habit if I had grown up with today's technology? If every time I was alone in my room as a kid, there was a distracting app I could scroll through?
Ali Abdaal
Video · December 2024
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