Psychologies

Take charge of your tech

REMEMBER WHEN everybody was talking about digital detoxes and off-grid holidays, and those long ‘Screen-free Sundays’ that were just a reminder of how much we hated board games? That all feels like rather a distant memory. Suddenly, phones and laptops became essential, not only for communication and entertainment, but for work, social get-togethers, exercise – even educating our children and putting food on the table. Any attempt at monitoring screen time was soon abandoned, along with baking sourdough and knitting Fair Isle socks, and we are plugged into our devices more than

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