Dr Charlotte Armitage’s TED Talk is finally available to share: “How devices are harming our kids and what we can do about it.”

May 27, 2025

Dr Charlotte Armitage’s TED Talk is finally available to share: “How devices are harming our kids and what we can do about it.”

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“Given that my book “Generation Zombie” contains a lot of information about the everyday use of devices and how it impacts children in very subtle ways, I decided to do my TED talk from the perspective of normalised and socially acceptable behaviours across the centuries.

Every century there has been a product that we have given to children, assuming its safety, but which we have later established is harmful and is now banned or illegal. I pose the question of whether giving devices to children is the equivalent problem of the 21st century.”

Watch it here.