The Problem With Our Phones [The School Of Life]

Before you preorder that new iPhone X, let The School of Life remind you of all the things smartphones can't help you do — like connect with your loved ones, commune with nature and accept the inevitability of death.

The dark truth is that it’s become very hard to find anyone (and certainly anything) more interesting than one’s smartphone.

This perplexing and troubling realisation has for most of us had huge consequences for our love stories, family lives, work, leisure time and health. There is almost no relationship in which the presence of the phone has not had a profound impact.

The genuine beauty and interest of our phones wouldn’t be a matter of such concern if we didn’t suspect, somewhere in our minds, that this machine has both opened some doors and is in danger of grievously closing others. This essay knows we love our phones and would never want us to give them up, but it is also gently aware that these delightful gadgets bear a hidden cost.

This is a text that aims to bring a little sanity to our closest, most intense and possibly most danger-laden technological relationship…

(by: The School Of Life)