Mediagazer: Smartphones have created an epidemic of digital distraction, which poses more of a threat to our souls than our minds (Andrew Sullivan/New York Magazine)

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Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:

Smartphones have created an epidemic of digital distraction, which poses more of a threat to our souls than our minds — An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too.

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