Jacob Ward
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Jul 2025
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And in that wide open landscape where things have been moving so, so quickly, it is very, very difficult to keep up with how fast
the social media companies and the other forms of entertainment and distraction on the phone, the people who make money off of the attention economy, how fast they are moving.
I was talking to someone who runs basically research on kids around
their digital habits.
And he's also a pediatrician who's in practice, so he does research and clinical work.
And he was saying to me that his difficulty is that in order to truly study this stuff the way that scientists are supposed to, you have to set up a peer-reviewed study, do a big look at this stuff,
It takes a long time to raise the money for that and to do the study.
And then once you've done the study, you need to wait for other people to do similar studies.
You publish the findings and then you get other people to do similar studies.
Years go by before you're able to actually issue any kind of firm verdict about a thing.
In the meantime, he says he's got parents coming into his office day and night saying, my kid has changed entirely based on using the phone.
They can't be away from the phone.
It's a disaster.
They're not sleeping enough.
What do I do?
And he says, boy, I want to tell them.
On the one hand, I want to say as a good clinician, I want to say, well, you should do this and this right now.
But as a researcher, I want to say to them, well, I need you to wait five or six years for me to really issue a verdict here.
That's the thing that we are dealing with at the moment is this thing is moving so fast and in such an unregulated environment that it's really hard to know
year by year, or even financial quarter by financial quarter, as these new phones come out, what exactly to do as a parent.
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