The social inequality facing hyperconnection has become a problem within the problem. A few years ago, we still believed that the least privileged suffered from a lack of access to the internet, which would keep them away from knowledge, connections, and opportunities. Now, it is clear that it is the opposite.

More and more UK schools are realising that they must act to prevent children accessing smartphones on their premises, a victory for the relentless campaigning by parents, often via organisations such as Smartphone Free Childhood and Delay Smartphones.