“People become paranoid about whatever is in the zeitgeist,” says psychiatrist Dr Sachin Shah, “Right now, that means spam emails telling people they are being watched, webcams and auto-prediction on smartphones.” While Shah is not convinced that smartphones are more problematic for users than other technology has been, he also says that research on the effect smartphones and predictive technologies – the way email can now suggest sentences for you to write, for example – are having on people with psychosis simply hasn’t yet been done.
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