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How do we enforce boredom in society?

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Vicki Boykis
Nov 22, 2019
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A recent trend I’ve seen at restaurants over the last five years or so is kids glued to screens sitting next to family members who are talking to each other at meals. I’m not immune from this - when my daughter was a toddler, we’d also dutifully pack up our iPad, along with 5,344 coloring books, stickers, and crayons. We’d go through all of our non-digi…

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