"Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed."
(C.S. Lewis - Magician's Nephew)

"The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plate commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. but at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You have to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."
(George Orwell - 1984 - chap 1)

'Bored' Kids Are Making A Comeback. Some Parents Say It's Changing Everything. This summer, send your kids outside. (Clare Ath - DailyWire - 11/5/20226)

The Hunger for the Real. (Christine Rosen - Commentary - 1/5/2026)

How the laptop revolution destroyed public education. (Auron MacIntyre - Blaze News - 26/2/2026)

How to Ruin a Generation: Give Everyone Smartphones What is all of this digital content doing to the souls of kids? To everyone? (Peter Biles - The Stream - 10/12/2025)

Meta Buried 'Causal' Evidence of Social Media Harm, U.S. Court Filings Allege Meta spokesman Andy Stone said the study was stopped because its methodology was flawed. (Reuters - DailyWire - 22/11/2025)

Tech expert gives step-by-step guide to fight addictive algorithms, rediscover joy. (Blaze News - 20/10/2025)

4 In 10 US Teens Admit Problems With Their Smartphone Usage. (Tyler Durden - Zero Hedge - 25/9/2024)

Les enfants accros aux écrans et sans contact humain seront une génération de conformistes, selon une sociologue française. (Alicia Hernández - BBC News - 24/9/2023)

PHAC wants new surveillance tools to track Covid vaccination in 'hard-to-reach populations': The Public Health Agency of Canada previously came under fire after it was revealed the agency surveilled approximately 30 million Canadians for COVID compliance by collecting cell phone location data. (Sheila Gunn Reid - Rebel News - 5/9/2023)

This Town Banned Kids from Having Smart Phones and The Results Were Stunning… (Cassie Cole - Washington Engager - 4/9/2023)

Smartphones Are the New Civilizational Crisis: They make us incapable of normal human interaction. (Frank DeVito - The American Spectator - 9/8/2023)

Alarming New Study Finds Smartphones Ruining Our Brains at Unprecedented Speed. (Colby Hall - Mediaite - 9/8/2025)

Cell Phones and Social Media: Black Death for Young Minds. (Frosty Wooldridge - News With Views - 21/7/2025)

Your kids' iPhones may be the most dangerous things they own. (Gary Marx - Blaze News - 25/6/2025)

Clare Morell Book Launch: "The Tech Exit". (First Things - 2/6/2025) -> exploring the pathway to freedom from digital technology for families, local communities, and society.

Joe Rogan Guest Reveals Facebook's Secret Experiment That Manipulated 700,000 Users Without Warning: A Facebook user ended up in the ER, questioning whether Facebook's experiment had pushed them to the brink. (The Vigilant Fox - 16/5/2025) -> This experiment occured in 2012.

Upgrade to a dumbphone. (Andrew Edwards - Blaze News - 6/4/2025)

À Rio, les cours de récré reprennent vie après l'interdiction des téléphones. (AFP/FranceSoir - 11/2/2025)

Teens' rising aggression, hallucinations linked to early cellphone use, study finds. (Cassie B. - Edwin's Newsletter #1 - 3/2/2025)

Smartphone use leads to hallucinations, detachment from reality, aggression in teens as young as 13: Study. (Rikki Schlott - New York Post - 23/1/2025)

Florida School District Banned Cell Phones and the Results Have Been Wild. (Jack Davis - The Western Journal - 12/1/2025)

Losing My Phone: The Wake-Up Call We All Need. (George Christensen - The Daily Declaration - 23/12/2024)

NYC Reverses Course on Banning Cell Phones in Schools After Neurotic Parents Push Back. (Tyler Durden - Zero Hedge - 4/10/2024)

The Dumbphone Revolution? It's a crazy idea, but what if we just started using our phones to call and text people? (Peter Biles - Mind Matters - 3/10/2024)

4 In 10 US Teens Admit Problems With Their Smartphone Usage. (Tyler Durden - Zero Hedge - 25/9/2024)

10 Teens Gave up Smartphones for a Month — Here's What Happened. (Joseph Mercola - 20/9/2024)

Miss your flip phone? A growing number of people are ditching the smartphone for 'dumb phones'. (Joseph MacKinnon - Blaze Media - 14/8/2024)

How smartphones colonised childhood: Jonathan Haidt argues a toxic combination of safetyism and social media has shaped Generation Z. (Spiked - 30/5/2024)

How social media drove us mad Without face-to-face, in-person interaction, we lose our humanity. (Patrick West - Spiked - 19/4/2024)

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. (Jonathan Haidt - Penguin Press - 26/3/2024)

'It's Causing Them to Drop Out of Life': How Phones Warped Gen Z - The social psychologist Jonathan Haidt warns social media is fueling a mental health crisis. (Marc Novicoff - Politico - 24/3/2024) -> And there could be some unexpected political fallout. As Haidt puts it, with a growing sense of anxiety and dislocation, people may become more open to an authoritarian leader who promises to stop the chaos.

How to Rescue 'The Anxious Generation' From The Smartphones Ruining Their Lives. (Ben Christenson - The Federalist - 21/3/2024)

Minnesota middle school bans student cell phones — and 'kids are happy': Difference is 'night and day'. (Joel Newsman - American Classroom - 30/11/2023)

Study Finds Cellphone Usage Making Men Infertile – Media Blackout. (Sean Adl-Tabatabai - The People's Voice - 10/11/2023)

Les enfants accros aux écrans et sans contact humain seront une génération de conformistes, selon une sociologue française. (Alicia Hernández - BBC News Mundo - 24/9/2023)

This Town Banned Kids from Having Smart Phones and The Results Were Stunning… (Cassie Cole - Washington Engager - 4/9/2023)

Smartphones Are the New Civilizational Crisis: They make us incapable of normal human interaction. (Frank DeVito - The American Spectator - 9/8/2023)

Are WiFi Appliances Prepping The Public For Carbon Tracking & Social Credit Scores? (Infowars - 11/7/2023)

It's Getting Harder to Live Without a Smartphone, And That's a Massive Problem. (Victoria Marshall - The Federalist - 15/2/2023)

'Why Not Create A Tesla of The Mind': New Implant Revealed That Treats Chronic Depression. (Hank Berrien - DailyWire - 12/1/2023) -> But if such an implant can be used to treat depression, then it could just as well be used to CAUSE depression...

Don't Make Me Think. (Zero HP Lovecraft - 5/11/2022) -> a short story...

Abus d'écran : les enfants développent une maladie oculaire de seniors. (FranceSoir - 20/10/2022)

The Best Dumb Phones for Smart Minimalists. (Ryan M. - Tiny Life - 5/10/2022)

Des smartphones low tech contre le pouvoir des Big Tech. (FranceSoir - 2/10/2022)

The Smartphone's Role In Dumbing Down America. (Bruce Wilds/The Advancing Time Blog - Tyler Durden/Zero Hedge - 24/9/2022)

Spirals of Delusion: How AI Distorts Decision-Making and Makes Dictators More Dangerous. (Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman, and Jeremy Wallace - Foreign Affairs - 31/8/2022)

Doctor Warns Your iWatch & FitBit are Tracking You, Giving Data to the World Economic Forum. (The Alex Jones Show - 26/8/2022) -> with Dr. Jason Dean

The Smartphone's Role In Dumbing Down America. (Bruce Wilds - Advancing Time - 6/8/2022)

The Collapse of Teen Mental Health — And Deadly Mass Shootings — Can Be Traced to One Single Trend. (Dylan Housman - Daily Caller - 27/5/2022)

Meta: The Final Disconnect From Reality? (Technocracy.News - 29/10/2021)

Big Tech's threat to democracy Can the US government tolerate the existence of a rival within its territory? (Matthew B Crawford - UnHerd - 29/6/2021)

Excessive Smartphone Use Is Associated With Health Problems in Adolescents and Young Adults. (Yehuda Wacks and Aviv M. Weinstein - Frontiers in Psychiatry - 28/5/2021)

New Google Nest Hub Can Track Sleep With Radar. (Charlotte Pence Bond - DailyWire - 16/3/2021) -> So now Google needs to know when you're sleeping... What else does Google "need" to know???

Vivre sans cellulaire: s'exiler du 21e siècle. (Maxime Scrive - Le Verbe - 12/3/2021

Apple Judge Rejects Suit Claiming Siri Serial Eavesdropping. (Malathi Nayak - Bloomberg - 10/2/2021)

Amazon Ring App Found to be (Again) Exposing User Locations, Home Addresses. (Karl Bode - TechDirt - 22/1/2021)

The Garmin Ransomware Hack Is Horrifying: The hack reveals that fitness tracking companies are vulnerable troves of sensitive data and aren't taking your privacy seriously. (Kevin Truong - MotherBoard - 28/7/2020)

Rogue 'Smart' Ovens Again Highlight How Dumb Tech Is Often The Smarter Choice. (Karl Bode - TechDirt - 23/8/2019)

Elon Musk wants to merge our brains with computers by 2020. (Chris Ciaccia - Fox News - 17/7/2019)

Facebook to Start Handing User Info to French Government So It Can Start Punishing People For Being Stupid. (Tim Cushing - TechDirt - 27/6/2019)

Amazon Alexa transcripts live on, even after you delete voice records: You can delete voice recordings so Amazon can't listen to your conversations with Alexa anymore, but text records are a different story. (Alfred Ng - CNET - 9/5/2019)

Big Tech Lobbying Gutted a Bill That Would Ban Recording You Without Consent: The Illinois Keep Internet Devices Safe Act would have empowered average people to sue big companies for recording them without consent, but industry association lobbying defanged it. (Rob Dozier - MotherBoard - 12/4/2019)

Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa: A global team reviews audio clips in an effort to help the voice-activated assistant respond to commands. (Matt Day, Giles Turner and Natalia Drozdiak - Bloomberg - 10/4/2019)

Google Nest Secure home security system's hidden microphone was never disclosed to consumers. (Pat Gray - The Blaze - 21/2/2019)

Google Forgot To Tell Users About Its Hidden Spy Microphone. (Niamh Harris - News Punch - 20/2/2019)

Google a caché un micro dans certains produits Nest pendant deux ans: Les appareils de la gamme Nest Guard n'étaient pas censés contenir de microphone, mais Google a révélé lors d'une mise à jour que le capteur était en fait bien présent et activable par la voix. (Elisa Braun - Figaro - 08/02/2019)

Worried Amazon Will Add Facial Recognition to Doorbells? Too Late. (David Cardinal - ExtremeTech - 13/12/2018)

How Bike-Sharing Services And Electric Vehicles Are Sending Personal Data to The Chinese Government. (Glyn Moody - TechDirt - 11/12/2018)

Dystopia Now: Insurance Company Secretly Spying on Sleep Apnea Patients. (Karl Bode - TechDirt - 26/11/2018)

Why do we Feel so Compelled to Check Our Phones? Much like Pavlov's dogs, we are now conditioned to respond to our smartphones. (Mike Brooks - Psychology Today - 10/10/2018)

Amazon Alexa Instantaneously Justifies Years of Surveillance Paranoia. (Karl Bode - TechDirt - 25/5/2018)

The Internet of Things (IoT) Poses Huge Numbers of Worldwide Security Risks, Large and Small. (Digilloyd - 21/5/2018)

Are Smart Phones an IQ and Creativity Downgrade, with Anti-Social Bonus Points? (Diglloyd - 15/5/2018)

Alexa, What Are You Doing with My Family's Personal Info?: Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and several smart-home technologies that debuted at last week s CES add convenience but also raise privacy concerns. (Larry Greenemeier - SciAm - 15/1/2018)

Alexa, Burn My House Down. (Adam Clark Estes - Gizmodo - 4/1/2018)

Faux jouets mais vrais espions. (Disciple - Paroles de Dieu - 15/12/2017)

Is Alexa Really Eavesdropping on You? (Brad Stone - Bloomberg - 11/12/2017)

Smartphones have turned us into tech-addicted zombies. Here's why we should ban them for kids. (Steve Hilton - FoxNews - 11/11/2017)

Yes, Facebook is spying on you. (Wazooloo - YouTube - 4/11/2017)

The inventor of the Facebook like  now bans himself from social media. Here's why. (Aaron Colen - The Blaze - 9/10/2017)

Écrans, la déconnexion en famille. (Paula Pinto Gomes - La Croix - 11/8/2017)

Les Français accros à leur smartphone, 23% d'entre eux ne l'éteignent jamais. (FranceSoir - 25/4/2017)

Teenagers 'checking mobile phones in night'. (Katherine Sellgren - BBC News - 6/10/2016)

Téléphones, tablettes, babyphones : les enfants trop exposés aux ondes. (FranceSoir - 8/7/2016)

How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind  from a Magician and Google Design Ethicist. (Tristan Harris - Thrive Global - 18/5/2016)

Comment gérer le temps d'écran des enfants ? (Paula Pinto Gomes - La Croix - 29/9/2015)

The invisible addiction: Cell-phone activities and addiction among male and female college students. (James A. Roberts, Luc Honore Petnji Yaya, and Chris Manolis - Journal of Behavioral Addictions - 26/8/2014)

Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks. (Adam D. I. Kramer, Jamie E. Guillory and Jeffrey T. Hancock - PNAS - 2/6/2014) -> In 2012, Facebook conducted a secret experiment on 689,000 users, manipulating their news feeds...

L'influence des écrans sur les enfants fait débat. (Marie Auffret-Pericone - La Croix - 14/2/2013)