I found this article very interesting because, although it tells us things that we already assumed, it does so using a lot of very interesting data and personal examples (from interviews).
I only "read" it once (actually I had my smartphone read it to me while I was driving) but my only criticism is that I think the author uses the word "cause" instead of correlate too much. Even though he seems to apologize a lot for that - I believe that it is not honest for a researcher of human behavior to talk about causes.
The data (and non empirical examples) he gives do seem to demonstrate a stark array of changes in patterns of behavior since the smart phone became more popular. These changes in behavior patterns may not individually be unique. However the confluence of the different behavior pattern changes (I believe he is saying) is unique to this generation.
To me the main question is - what can we do with this information?
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Rabbi Benjy Kramer
Yeshivah of Flatbush Joel Braverman High School
Director of Educational Technology
