A closer look
Looking down at your smartphone forces your neck to support up to sixty pounds of additional weight, placing a massive structural strain on your cervical spine. The human head weighs about ten to twelve pounds when balanced perfectly upright, but increasing the angle of your neck by just forty-five degrees turns your skull into a biological bowling ball. This phenomenon, known as tech neck, causes chronic muscle tension, spinal disc compression, and a permanently terrible silhouette. Millions of years of evolution gave us a perfectly aligned bipedal spine, only for us to ruin it entirely in a single decade by voluntarily spending hours folded over our screens like sad little shrimps reading internet arguments
