Dark GDP: The Economics of Entangled Time

Your screen time produces trillions in economic value that GDP doesn't measure

Dark GDP: The Economics of Entangled Time Your screen time produces trillions in economic value that GDP doesn't measure Nav Vaidhyanathan Apr 12, 2026 15 1 1 Share 🎧 Listen to podcast version of this article below: 0:00 -1:05:34 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. I. The Screen My iPhone tells me I spent six hours and forty-seven minutes on it yesterday. The notification arrives every Sunday morning — Apple’s Screen Time report, unbidden, mildly accusatory. I have never once looked at it and felt anything other than a quiet unease. Thanks for reading Nav’s Substa

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