NOT SO SMART

Mobile phones are reckoned to be as addictive as cigarettes. Little wonder Apple is the most successful company on the planet, worth $2.7 trillion. And their iphone celebrates its 15th birthday this year. Studies have shown our attention span is shorter, parents interact with their children less and we’ve developed a whole raft of new neuroses. Amazing, and sad, how a device designed to help us communicate means we actually communicate less.