What technology would you be better off without, why?
If you asked me to list the technology that drains my happiness the most, my mind jumps to the usual suspects.
I could blame social media and the infinite scroll that destroys my ability to focus. I could blame the loss of privacy from smart home devices listening in on my living room conversations. I could even blame workplace chat apps like Slack that keep me on high-alert.
But those are just symptoms. If we really want to cure the digital fatigue we are all feeling, we have to look at the root cause. We have to look at the delivery mechanism.
If I could un-invent one piece of technology, it would be the Smartphone.
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