Are smartphones and social media destroying us? Unlikely. We are simply mistaking the growing pains of transformation for an ultimate decline.

History shows us that every communication technology revolution has sparked panic—from writing to printing, from radio to television, and then to the internet. These apocalyptic predictions have never come true, and society has continuously rebalanced itself.

An interesting phenomenon is that more and more people feel relieved after briefly disconnecting from these devices. It's not the technology itself that is the problem, but rather that we are still learning how to coexist. Adaptation takes time.