I like to play a game on the subway where I look around and try to find someone not on their phone. I like seeing a person reading a book, or, in an ultimate win, someone staring into space without headphones. It’s a rare find.
These check-ins remind me that we, as a society, rely on our phones to distract and entertain us. Yet still, even as a hyper-aware person, I can’t even force myself to get off my own iPhone while riding the train. I try, but always think of something I have to do immediately: reply to an email, respond to my friend’s text, double-check a date in my calendar, read an article, adjust my music. Apparently everyone has something to do, too. In the 10 years since the iPhone debuted, it’s slowly eaten our personal...
from
https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/29/15886630/apple-iphone-10th-anniversary-personal-spaces-digital-detox
from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/06/were-starting-to-reclaim-spaces-iphone.html
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