Smartphones have been around for long enough now -- I don't know whether I agree with the titular claim. I think the phone/distraction addiction is more of a sy

Smartphones have been around for long enough now -- I don't know whether I agree with the titular claim. I think the phone/distraction addiction is more of a symptom of something else. I've seen somewhere on twitter a thread positing that Covid changed people's brains (long covid especially), but let's take that with a grain of sand maybe. Right neighbourhood anyway, it seems the rise in these behaviours coincides with the rise of the pandemic.