Yes, It Really, Really Is the Phones
“You [the average tech user] didn’t make the iPhone. It’s not your fault. I never said it’s your fault. I’m saying it’s your responsibility. This stuff isn’t going away. In some form or other, it’s here to stay. What choice do we have? We have to adapt. That’s our only option.”
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
The phone-based life produces spiritual degradation, not just in adolescents, but in all of us.
Jonathan Haidt • The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
All technology is a mixed blessing. The printing press gave us all greater access to Chaucer, Shakespeare, and the Bible — but it also enabled revolutions and rebellions. The invention of the movies gave us a new medium of high art, but then a mass of trivial television. Phones and social media can be distracting and enraging, but they are also a c... See more