« El consumo digital exacerbado devora todo lo emocional y lo cognitivo de nuestra humanidad » (La Nación interview)
This long interview by Hugo Alconada Mon, one of Argentina's best-known investigative journalists, ran in La Nación as Michel Desmurget's book reached Spanish-language readers in late 2020. Desmurget repeats his most provocative contention — that today's « digital natives » may be the first children to test lower on IQ than their parents — and lists the outcomes he says the research literature most consistently associates with heavy recreational screen use: slower language development, disrupted sleep, weaker concentration, lower school results, and higher risk of excess weight. He frames the cumulative exposure in school-time terms: by his estimate, the hours a child spends on recreational screens between ages two and eighteen rival roughly thirty school years' worth of classroom time. The IQ-reversal claim is Desmurget's own reading of Flynn-effect data, contested by other researchers; TechKids relays it as his, not as settled science.
Desmurget's own cumulative estimate, relayed in the interview, for the classroom-time equivalent of a child's total recreational screen hours across childhood.
The average daily recreational screen-time figures Desmurget cites in the interview, matching the framing figures of his 2019 book.
Alconada Mon, Hugo. « Michel Desmurget: 'El consumo digital exacerbado devora todo lo emocional y lo cognitivo de nuestra humanidad' ». La Nación (Argentina), November 28, 2020.