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The iPhone turns 10 – and it's isolated us, not united us

  • Written by Jean Twenge, Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University
imageIt was supposed to bring us all together.Rokas Tenys/Shutterstock.com

Sometime around 2011 or 2012, it suddenly became very easy to predict what people would be doing in public places: Most would be looking down at their phones.

For years, mobile phones weren’t much to look at. The screens were small, and users needed to press the same key...

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