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Battling the tech addiction that hijacked our brains

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With their invention of pioneering apps and can't-put-down devices, a small group of young people in Silicon Valley set the wheels in motion for society to become distracted, disconnected, and depressed. Now, some of them are trying to reverse the damage, and many are raising their own children screen-free.

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