Never woulda guessed that Steve Jobs’ greatest contribution to humanity woulda been less fucking, but here we are in this the year of our (chaste) lord, 2026.
Drew Smith
A clever new paper used the selective rollout of the iPhone on AT&T to show that it appears to have accounted for between a third and half of the fall in the birth rate in the U.S. between 2007 and 2011.
Second paper reproduced the effect worldwide:
www.axios.com/2026/06/09/i...
Researchers and policymakers have been scrambling to pinpoint why exactly birth rates are falling in the U.S. and around the world.
