“I don’t love referring to what we have as an “addiction.” That seems too sterile and clinical to describe what’s happening to our brains in the smartphone era. Unlike alcohol or opioids, phones aren’t an addictive substance so much as a species-level environmental shock.”— Kevin Roose, nytimes.com
“For consumers, this means forgoing convenience to control your ingredients: Read newsletters instead of News Feeds. Fall back to private group chats. Put the person back in personalization. Revert to reverse chron. Avoid virality. Buy your own server. Start a blog. Embrace anonymity. Own your own do…”— Nitasha tiku, wired.com
“Because of phones, we always have the ability to jump out of ourselves. But unless you learn how to be in your head, you'll never learn how to create.”— Lin-Manuel Miranda, gq.com
“The lesson of the last decade is that our private tech choices can alter economies and societies. They matter. And they matter most in the mindless rush, when everyone seems to be jumping on board the latest new thing, because it’s in these heady moments that we lose sight of the precise risks of tu…”— Farhad Manjoo, nytimes.com
“I’m exhausted by pictures, I find their presence increasingly intrusive, even though I’m addicted to gazing at them”— Richard Turley, dazeddigital.com
“We’re not freebasing Facebook and injecting Instagram here, Just as we shouldn’t blame the baker for making such delicious treats, we can’t blame tech makers for making their products so good we want to use them.”— Nir Eyal, theguardian.com