Life is interconnected as if it were traversed by a myriad of wormholes. News that seems to live apart is the same face of parallel universes. Due to the excessive use of technology, children have difficulty holding a pencil or a pen. Sally Payne, pediatrician at the Heart of England Foundation, launches the surprising warning. They do not know how to hold it. Because the fingers use them to type on any electronic device and the skill is lost.
Meanwhile, in silence, loneliness among adolescents has become one of the great epidemics of our time. A 2016 work from King’s College London discovered that dark matter. Six out of 10 kids between 12 and 17 years old said they felt alone, 9 out of 10 said they were nervous when it came to relating to people from different backgrounds, and 36% said it was “difficult to make friends”. Young people are locking themselves in the hole that lives between themselves and technology.
