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“If someone went onto Dragons Den to ask for investment in smartwatches back in the 1940s they’d be told to fuck off.” At first sight this statement from a participant in his fifties might seem bizarre, but let’s entertain it for one moment.
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Cashmore, E., Cleland, J., Dixon, K. (2018). Health. In: Screen Society. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68164-1_10
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