Ed Sheeran reveals he hasn’t owned a cell phone since 2015
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Ed Sheeran reveals he hasn’t owned a cell phone since 2015
What if you didn't even have to check your email or your phone for days or even weeks at a time?
Frankie Fihn • Beyond the Agency Box
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Not using a phone taught me what a phone is really for. It’s not for communicating with other people, getting directions, reading articles, looking at pictures, shopping for products, or playing games. A phone is a device for muting the anxieties proper to being alive . This is what all its functions and features ultimately achieve: cameras delive... See more
Tom Scocca • Screening out consciousness
During the song’s crescendo, Joel sings: “Slow down you crazy child / Take the phone off the hook and disappear for a while / It’s alright you can afford to lose a day or two.” Good advice in 1977, maybe, but not entirely possible in 2024.
“That’s this really romantic thought, because you can’t really do that nowadays,” Keaton said. “You can turn yo... See more
“That’s this really romantic thought, because you can’t really do that nowadays,” Keaton said. “You can turn yo... See more
Alaina Demopoulos • ‘No One Understands a Woman in Her 20s Like Billy Joel’: Gen Z Finds Solace in Anti-Hustle Anthem Vienna
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Not using a phone taught me what a phone is really for. It’s not for communicating with other people, getting directions, reading articles, looking at pictures, shopping for products, or playing games. A phone is a device for muting the anxieties proper to being alive. This is what all its functions and features ultimately achieve: cameras deliver ... See more
“Not using a phone taught me what a phone is really for. It’s not for communicating with other people, getting directions, reading articles, looking at pictures, shopping for products, or playing games. A phone is a device for muting the anxieties proper to being alive. This is what all its functions and features ultimately achieve: cameras deliver
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I have this really intense relationship with my phone and with my laptop, and in a lot of ways the laptop is the most intimate instrument that we've ever seen. It can mediate my relationships — it mediates my bank account — in a way that a violin or another acoustic instrument just simply can't do. It's really a hyper-emotional instrument, and I sp
... See moreNPR Staff • Holly Herndon: An Invasion of Intimacy, and the Song That Followed : NPR
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We think you’ll love life with a distraction-free phone. As one reader who was just getting started said, “I spent the past week with a disabled iPhone, and it’s been WONDERFUL.