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A study called The World Unplugged by the International Centre for Media & the Public Agenda (ICMPA) discovered that an overwhelming majority of students reported severe mental distress when forced to not use technology for a full 24 hour period.
Talking to The Telegraph, Professor Susan Moeller who led the research, likened the withdrawal symptoms to those seen in drug addicts.
This mindless and purposeless browsing means the number of hours we spend looking at screens has dramatically increased over the past 30 years which has correlated with a steep increase in short-sightedness and the search for vision correction with laser eye surgery.