CHAPTER 7
BE ALL THE MORE HUMAN (AND SERVE OTHER HUMANS)
Find the human in everything we do.
—AILISH CAMPBELL, AMBASSADOR OF CANADA TO THE EUROPEAN UNION
Amazon’s Alexa is more than an artificial intelligence–powered virtual assistant: she is a new family member. In China, pedestrian lanes specifically for mobile phone users have been established, along with a new term to describe the phenomenon: “heads-down society.”124 In 2019, teenagers spent an average of six hours and forty minutes per day on their mobile, tablet, and TV screens. Assuming they sleep, that’s more than 40 percent of their waking hours.125 Keep in mind, of course: these stats were before a shift to work-from-home, remote learning, and online lessons blew screen time through ...
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