I've been coming back to this one again and again, month after month. I just gave it a 10. This is evergreen.
As the Dalai Lama once tweeted, “It’s important that we shouldn’t be slaves to technology.”
I need to write a reply. I've been exclusively flip phone (versus smartphone) for over three years now and I'm definitely never going back. It's just a better arrangement.
A tired topic, indeed, but the writing here is actually good.
For example:
Yet amid the stunts and self-delusions and Walden wankery, facts are facts: We are the first generation of cyborgs, and our soft, slack bodies are rejecting the foreign technology. You can feel the invasion, a monstrous new lifeforce-leeching limb—the glass plus silicon multiplied by cloudmagic that equals the thousand-dollar device sitting pretty in your pocket.
I've been coming back to this one again and again, month after month. I just gave it a 10. This is evergreen.
I need to write a reply. I've been exclusively flip phone (versus smartphone) for over three years now and I'm definitely never going back. It's just a better arrangement.
A tired topic, indeed, but the writing here is actually good.
For example:
... and the moral of the story is?
Well....I guess it is hopeless to go back but I am still greyscale.
It's not hopeless!! I'm smartphone-free and love it. (PS Welcome to reallyread.it!)
A tired topic- yes, but still amusing!