Clinical psychologist Sherry Turkel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) made headlines when she published her 2015 book Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age. Turkle's central thesis was that teenagers and adults alike are losing their abilities to comprehend information and pay attention to one another owing to the disjointed and solitary nature of electronic communications. The abilities, Turkle says, that make us human. I too have railed against mobile phones, how their addictive nature has ushered in a slow burn dehumanisation. The teenage mind defenestrated. Perhaps. We are forever fighting this war. Every generation can lay claim to vast swathes of teens who found solace in something technological, new or novel. Indeed, the Novel itself was the source of great panic during the eighteenth century where the general consensus was that, besides being an utter waste of time, novels warped young people’s view of real life. "They impair [the mind’s] general powers of resistance," wrote the philanthropist Hannah More in 1799.
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