Smartphones are making us unhealthy, miserable, antisocial, and less free. If we can’t yet nationalize the attention economy, maybe it’s time to abolish its primary tool — before it finishes abolishing us.

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Smartphones are making us unhealthy, miserable, antisocial, and less free. If we can’t yet nationalize the attention economy, maybe it’s time to abolish its primary tool — before it finishes abolishing us.

  • evenwichtM
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    7 days ago

    I see this after the first few paragraphs:

    “This article is for subscribers only. Please login or subscribe to access our full archives and beautiful print and digital magazine starting at just $3 a month.”

    In any case, without being able to read the article, a call for a total ban on all smartphones for people of all ages is crazy talk. A position about banning them for certain demographics (like kids) or certain situations (like theaters or exam rooms) could get some reasonable conversation.

    I could probably get behind a ban on oppressive tech like closed-source software. Such a move would have the effect of banning most smartphones. It would inspire a big effort for liberated phones, which I would be on board with. But in the end it’s still unrealistic to expect society to make such a leap in sensibility.