Alexandra Jacobs in the New York Times:
This much we know: Smartphones are making us dumber. Compelling essays suggest we memorize handscratched poetry in the morning before opening Pandora’s inbox, and warn that the declining literacy of the digitally oversaturated threatens democracy.
Phones are expensive. So are digital detox retreats where devices get squirreled in safe deposit boxes as if they were the house deed or Grandpa’s gold watch.
This summer, as an experiment, I decided to go the other way and submit utterly to the pleasures and terrors of the phone when alone, without self-recrimination or judgment.
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