Yes, It Really, Really Is the Phones
What does it feel like to know everything all the time without taking your eyes off a small, luminous rectangle? What does it feel like to be a child of the phone? Where are the blinks, so seamless, so highly resolved, taking our minds now? We’re starting to find out. The phone is becoming visible. Whether it’s too late or not is hard to say.
Nichol
There are deeper forces than our phones and the web at work—and those forces led us, in turn, to develop a dysfunctional relationship with the web.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
What’s happening with our cellphones is that we put a thing in our pocket that’s with us all the time that always offers an easy thing to do, rather than the important thing.”