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For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones
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.
We’ve long known that, as conduits for the internet, phones facilitate the spread of misinformation and disinformation, amplify outrage, and enclose users in algorithmically tailored media silos. Meanwhile, the now-habitual impulse to grab your phone to tap out a quick post or text reply while in the presence of others — friends, family, service industry workers — is not only rude, but corrosive to basic social interaction. It’s hard to imagine a socialist order run by device-addicted zombies, increasingly disconnected and semi-literate — reverting to something like an oral tradition, only mediated through ChatGPT, dashed-off texts, and nihilistic shitposts on Twitter/X, all while uploading TikToks between tasks.
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