By John Glenday

The growing pervasiveness of smartphone usage has been graphically illustrated by a new study which shows the average Briton now spends the equivalent of close to an entire day per week on their devices.

This equates to 221 separate instances of social networking, texting and emailing each day with most of us instinctively reaching for our phones as soon as wake up and putting them down last before heading to bed.

Luciano Floridi, professor of philosophy and ethics of information at the University of Oxford commented: “Consider obesity. Because of evolution, we are constructed in such a way that we eat as Read full story ›

Source: The Drum