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I could not disagree more.

Before smartphones, one would "surf the web" for an hour or so at night, and physically sit down at a PC. That's a radically different experience compared to the 24/7 always-on information overload and forever temptation of the smartphone.

The very article points this out: there was a time where the internet complemented physical life, in good ways even.

Second, smartphone engagement is shallow. On a PC one tends to read more, write more extensively, because it's easy to do so.