9 June

One of the most interesting ‘data points’ I’ve seen in a while. The introduction of the smartphone corresponded with a pronounced drop in birth rates. As always people assume the device is the issue, rather than what people are doing on it. I would bet it’s social media use, on the device, that is the real culprit here. Pulverising communities into an ever-growing number of teams, fighting for status. There is no ‘we’ on social media. No collective society. It’s the transformation of adult life into adolescent status-finding. Only communities can have and raise children.