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How Tamagotchi Trained Millennials for the Era of Needy Devices

How Tamagotchi Trained Millennials for the Era of Needy Devices

Digital pets changed the rules of how we treat tech, paving the way for attention-hungry smartphones The post How Tamagotchi Trained Millennials for...

18.10.2025 7

The Walrus

Stephen Monteiro

Smartphones manipulate our emotions and trigger our reflexes — no wonder we’re addicted

Smartphones manipulate our emotions and trigger our reflexes — no wonder we’re addicted

The collective behaviours of smartphones — alerts, responsive interfaces, the use of gestures, the knowledge of intimate data — all feed into our...

07.10.2025 8

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Stephen Monteiro