“We might enjoy driving, and we are miserable in traffic. We buy cars because we need them, and we might buy specific cars because we want them, and the best ones can make a bad commute more bearable. But the problem isn’t our car. It’s all the other cars; the cities designed around them; the roads created for and now clogged by them. Smartphones are now trapped inside the world we’ve constructed around them, and so are we. If we want to escape, it won’t be another phone that gets us out.”
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| John Herrman, Is a Dumber Phone a Better Phone?
Buried in a piece on ‘dumb phones in a smart phone world’ are a few great lines about the problem with cars.
I am reminded of the line from Clerks, ‘I hate people, but I love gatherings’.
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