Yes, It Really, Really Is the Phones
So many of us are aching for a bit of quiet in a world that is constantly screaming at us from little rectangles in our pockets.
Nora McInerny • Bad Vibes Only: (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)
phubbing, or ignoring the people around you in favor of your phone.
Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips • The Future of Feeling: Building Empathy in a Tech-Obsessed World
Whether or not our collective attention spans are shrinking is up for debate, as is the notion that this is destructive to our minds and relationships. What doesn't appear to be up for debate is that the crux of this issue lies in our relationship with technology, particularly networking technologies.
Laura Pike Seeley Follow @lpikeseeley • Deep Work and the Digital Workplace
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
People were, he warned, living “on a treadmill of continuous checking.”