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Diego Hidalgo: ‘Banning the sale of phones to teenagers would empower parents’

He is a sociologist and a magician, and spends his life warning about the risks of a screen addiction that ‘makes us unhappy.’ At home, he leads by example: his mobile phone is an old Nokia without internet access

It is a quixotic cause in which his mind as a sociologist contrasts with the irrational nature of his other profession, that of a magician, with which he surprises audiences in the lectures he gives around the world. You dedicate the book to your children, who are from Generation Z, with this phrase: “So that you may continue choosing happiness and freedom over immediacy and efficiency.” Are we slaves to technology? When I published my first book on the subject in 2021, I thought I was going to receive a lot more criticism, but I think that as a society we are increasingly aware that we are facing a very worrying phenomenon.

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