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Opinion | Zadie Smith on Populists, Frauds and Flip Phones
- Like so many technologies that came before, it seems to be here to stay; the question is not how to escape it but how to understand ourselves in its inescapable wake.
In his new book, “The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is,” Justin E. H. Smith, a professor of philosophy at the Université Paris Cité, argues that “the present situation is intolerab... See morefrom How the Internet Turned Us Into Content Machines by Kyle Chayka
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Yet, smartphones are much more than an accumulation of improvements in hardware and software into a pocket-sized device that we spend too much time looking at. They represent something entirely new. When we pick up our phones, our taps and swipes engage not only a system of hardware and software, but also something much bigger—a set of institutions
... See morefrom The Smartphone Society by Nicole Aschoff
Andreas Vlach added
When we stop worrying about smartphones just in terms of content (what we’re looking at) and start to consider the rituals that tether us to them throughout the day, we’ll notice that the very form of the practice comes loaded with an egocentric vision that makes me the center of the universe.
from You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit by James K. A. Smith
The Zeitgeist Is Changing. A Strange, Romantic Backlash to the Tech Era Looms
by Ross Barkan
