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.
Meeting people in-person is increasingly a base survival tactic these days. It’s an island of legitimacy in an ocean of advertising culture. It’s taking real effort, too.
Ban ads and close source.
If you ban smartphones, make sur to make it in a way that would not prevent us to reinvent them in the way they should have existed in the first place.
I agree with the gist of much of the article. Although a fan of the original web, and developer of a climate web-app, I think small screens make people into consumers, while creators or investigators need a large screen, and that should be for dedicated periods of the day, not carried everywhere.
And we wish our kids had never had these things (gift from grandparents - hard to reject).However the article title is over-simple, impractical - how would you even define what is a smartphone, in the spectrum of devices ? (maybe that’s cause of downvotes ? )
This has to be the stupidest take I’ve ever had the privilege to read here. What a fantastical, luddite, preposterous proposal.