Your phone is why you don't feel sexy
Digitally isolated
It’s can’t be connection if it leaves you alone.
A poignant depiction of the iPhone as a prison via Felipe Luchi for Go Outside Brazil.
I keep thinking about being digitally isolated. What is “digital isolation?” In a nutshell: today we are more connected to anyone/everyone than at any point in history yet
... See moreWhat 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
for nearly fourteen years afterwards, I stared at a smartphone every single day. Five thousand days, all in all. I can’t think of anything else I’ve done with the same level of commitment. There have been days where I’ve had nothing to eat or drink and there have been nights when I didn’t sleep. But until very recently, I never once went twenty-fou... See more
The Dark Side of Frictionless Technology
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