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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Inside Digital Rehab

    Did you know that the average smartphone user looks at his phone 221 times a day? That’s according to a British study. It’s a number that makes you wonder if we’re all digital addicts. Turns out, we might be. So what’s it like inside the country’s first residential rehab for digital addiction.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Mar 24, 2016 • 1 min read

    Did you know that the average smartphone user looks at his phone 221 times a day? That’s according to a British study. It’s a number that makes you wonder if we’re all digital addicts. Turns out, we might be. So what’s it like inside the country’s first residential rehab for digital addiction.

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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Producer, 'The Document'

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      Anna Scott

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    Cleaning Up the Port of L.A., and Will Hollywood Boycott Georgia?
    1. 0:00Cleaning Up the Country’s Busiest Port
    2. 9:01Hollywood Georgia Boycott
    3. 16:48Weekly Web Roundup: FBI v. Apple
    4. 28:44Inside Digital RehabYou’re reading this
    5. 39:17The Kondo Way
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