“People tend not to dream quite as much about reading and writing, which are more recent developments in human history, and more about survival related things, like fighting, even if that has nothing to do with who you are in real life.”— Katie Heaney, thecut.com
“The way we’re attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail or an email. We’re almost like lab rats.”— Eddie Vedder, huffingtonpost.com
“I for sure need to break up with my phone. Because once the kids get home from school and it's the time of day when I'm getting a lot of messages, I'll be making dinner and checking my phone and talking to the kids, but that's not the conversation they want to have. I kind of try to do too many thin…”— Julia Roberts, goodhousekeeping.com
“Hey, the eighties called. They were really excited about inventing a phone that could call the future.”— Unknown, tcat.tc
“Smartphones have been around, in their current form, for about 10 years. Humankind is 200,000 years old,” Greenfield says. “Is it possible that we’ve distorted how important this technology is to our lives?”— Jamie Ducharme, Dr. David Greenfield, fortune.com
“Every time I use an emoji I'm slightly terrified there's some meaning behind it that I'm totally unaware of.”— Susan Fowler, twitter.com
“Apple Music said in December that it had more than 20 million subscribers, most of whom pay $9.99 a month; Spotify counted more than 40 million paying subscribers in September.”— Ben Fritz, Hannah Karp, Tripp Mickle, wsj.com
“Broadcasters and public safety officials have long urged handset manufacturers and wireless carriers to universally activate the FM chip, and recently brought the campaign to Canada. Carriers have little financial incentive to do so because they profit from streaming data, says Barry Rooke of the Na…”— April Glaser, wired.com