My preteen daughter came home from day camp the other day complaining about some of the girls in her bunk. She used an interesting phrase I had never heard before, calling them “phone kids.” They were children who, even without their phones in hand, seemed wired differently.
It was a fascinating and surprisingly astute observation, and one I was reminded of while reading a chilling cover story in the August issue of The Atlantic. In “The End of Reading Is Here,” staff writer Rose Horowitch chronicles not just how reading for pleasure and schoolwork has fallen off a cliff since the advent of smartphones and social media, but how those changes are rewiring our brains.
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