A few years ago Matthew Crawford wrote a fantastic book about this, "Head The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction". I rec

A few years ago Matthew Crawford wrote a fantastic book about this, "Head The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction". I recommend it every chance I get. The part that changed how I feel about these things for ever was about how the slot machine companies have been rigorously testing how to make them maximally addictive to the point that it's now normal for players in casinos to piss themselves and just keep playing. Psychologically addictive substances are real, and they can be digital, and they can wreck our lives just as well as psychologically addictive drugs.