There is often talk of a looming takeover by artificial intelligence. But ask anyone who’s ridden the New York City subway recently, and they’ll probably tell you it’s already here. Well, kind of.
The odds are you’re reading this on your phone. You may have come here via social media, the CNN app, an email or a good old-fashioned browser. The chances are you did not open your smartphone with the intention to load this story, but here you are.
A necessity, a habit or an addiction, call it what you like: we’re all on our phones. The research and data around smartphone addiction and its negative impact on sleep, mental performance and mental health is alarming. Studies have found even when we’re not using them, if we’re in the same room as our smartphone it’s affecting our brains. Yet in less than a generation, they have become an indispensable part of our lives.
Nevertheless, plenty of people are finding ways to disconnect. Some want a digital detox to boost performance and wellbeing; some are concerned parents; others cite data privacy fears, or are choosing to wall themselves off from the attention economy. At the extreme end, some youths are turning their backs on technology and proudly defining themselves as Luddites.
The Schizo/Psycho War: Part 2
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BTW, why do people riot over, for example, police brutality – but not over the broken healthcare?
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The Schizo/Psycho War Table of Contents:
