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To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter.
-Tom Hodgkinson
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To Me There Is No More Depressing

Tom Hodgkinson
To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter.
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