"Anyone who claims there's a quick fix is selling snake oil. App timers, grayscale screens, "digital detoxes" — these are bandaids on a bullet wound. The deeper reality is that smartphones, as the portal to the digital metasphere, have rewired how an entire generation thinks, feels, and relates to the world. There's no undo button.
But there is one place to start: recognition.
We must acknowledge that we've engineered an attention economy whose most precious raw material is human focus, and we are burning through it like cheap fuel. Until we admit that, there's no hope of slowing the decline — much less reversing it..."
