Steve Jobs was so convinced the smartphone was a bad thing he wouldn’t let his own kids have one.

Research has shown that devices cause the “dopamine tickle,” a phrase that refers to a release of the pleasure transmitter dopamine into the brain.

Typical video game dopamine release are at the level of 100%, or about the same as sex (eating chocolate is rated at 50%, cocaine, 350%).

Game-related addictions have even cause a new disorder to be named: “Internet Addiction Disorder,” or IAD. But it’s not just games: it turns out that releasing information on the web (“Do you know who I saw her with??”) also causes the “dopamine tickle.”

Wait! It gets better (worse?): 55% of technicians monitoring heart bypass machines reported talking on their cell phones during surgery!

— Larry Schweikart, “Phones, Devices and Addiction – Managing, not Eliminating” DBDailyUpdate.com / June 12, 2020