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Are we heading for a digital amnesia epidemic?

Whether you like it or not, smartphones are irrevocably part of our lives. For many of us, they bookend our days, as we wake in the morning to the tinny chime of an iPhone alarm and drift off at night after numbing our brains with TikTok.

And as for our waking hours: Gen Z has a staggering average screentime of 7 hours and 20 minutes a day. Treating our phones as such is wreaking havoc with our ability to recall information.