Smart Phones are to Blame Again!

[mike carey]

This is both a tech story and a sociology one, so I settled on the Lounge rather than the Tech Forum.

I've been paying attention to the work of John Burn-Murdoch for a while, at least since the pandemic that I can remember. He's the chief data reporter for the Financial Times and cross publishes his content on other platforms as well.

In this fascinating piece on YouTube he correlates the recent sharp decline in birth rates with the widespread arrival of smart phones in a range of countries. The case he presents is persuasive, although as he notes, not proof of cause rather than correlation. It runs for about 12 minutes.