Excellent post.

Aside from the illnesses riding on the power sources of technology, there is a possible solution for the current almost hypnotic control such things as smart phones exert on their owners, especially our adolescents.

The absence of adult behavior children used to watch and imitate has been exacerbated--according to the Atlantic article--by the almost total submission to the demands of young peoples's smart phones.

Learning how to be responsible adults is becoming more difficult, exacting a terrible cost to the function of social institutions in the not too distant future.

Beginning in preschool, continuing to puberty and the first couple of years of adolescence, we could create classes which imitate the adult behavior missing from the lives of our children. (It's not so much that it doesn't exist in their lives it's just that because of the enrapture of technology, kids don't notice it. For example, again from then Atlantic article, they want to be driven everywhere by the parents, but they don't notice how to drive.)

And the preceding parenthesis doesn't include both parents working, consequently absent from their lives during the day.

Classes that teach good decision making, setting priorities, classes that present as closely as possible the watch and imitate lives of students that disappeared with the advent of the industrial revolution.

Hunter-gatherer, and most agriculture-age children had learned to be adults by the time they reached puberty.

Sensorimotor learning registers in the brain more than soft subjects do. Repeating adult behavior when children ensures adult behavior by adolescence, at least it used to for millions of years.