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I’ve been carrying around an iPhone since the first day it was released in 2007. Over the last decade, the iPhone (and, more generally, the smartphone) has significantly changed how we interact with technology on a daily basis. Overnight in 2007, we went from having to physically sit in front of a computer to being able to carry around one in our pants pocket and use it anywhere and everywhere we go. As you can imagine, overall computer usage went up… dramatically.
“The numbers are staggering: a New York Times analysis calculated that as of 2014, Facebook users were spending a collective 39,757 years’ worth of attention on the site, every single day. It’s attention that we didn’t spend on our families, or our friends, or ourselves. And just like time, once we’ve spent attention, we can never get it back. This is a really big deal, because our attention is the most valuable thing we have. We experience only what we pay attention to. We remember only what we pay attention to. When we decide what to pay attention to in the moment, we are making a broader decision about how we want to spend our lives.”
- How To Break Up With Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan To Take Back Your Life by Catherine Price
A few months back I read How To Break Up With Your Phone by Catherine Price and found it an absolutely…
