>One of the key arguments experts made is that the rise in time spent on smartphones and gaming devices is being driven not just by the ubiquity of screens them

>One of the key arguments experts made is that the rise in time spent on smartphones and gaming devices is being driven not just by the ubiquity of screens themselves, but by the loss of alternative ways and places for children to play. Really? I grew up smashing rocks with hammers, throwing rocks, putting insects in boxes and watching them interact, digging holes, climbing anything climbable. Perhaps the screens are just killing imagination and offering too good an alternative.