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The smartphone, a fetish object on its way to becoming our "third brain"

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    Le 19h30
  • 16 January 2019
  • Virginie Sterpenich
    • Médecine, UNIGE
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After the one in our head and the network of neurons in our digestive system, could the smartphone be our third brain? Indispensable and addictive, the cell phone would teach us to unlearn.

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