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The making of a smartphone zombie generation
China is ahead of the West in seeing the dangers.
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Surveys show increasing support from parents for smartphone bans.
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Camilla Cavendish
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Imagine that a James Bond villain decided to achieve world domination not with armies or drones but through our brains. They might manipulate our minds to get us addicted to fantasy worlds, turn us against one another, and reduce our ability to concentrate.
Inventing the smartphone would do it. Then persuading us to give it to our children.
