MIT professor and social psychologist Sherry Turkle tells us what happens to our brains when we are constantly checking our phones.

“We’ve become intolerant of a moment of being alone” Turkle says adding that “our brain really needs constant stimulation”, but this is the most dangerous change of all.

“Is that we’re always hypervigilant, we’re always on constant alert”, she says.

This state of mind was perhaps helpful in the wild, but, it’s not helpful for the life we live now where we have to be calmed down. It makes us depressed and unable to reflect and self-reflect, claims Sherry Turkle.