There’s a good chance you’re reading these words right now on a smartphone. And just as good of a chance, in fact, that you’ve been essentially either tethered to your phone all day or it’s at least been within arm’s reach when you’re not using it. Permanent connectivity is the price of modern convenience these …
At this point, smartphone addiction is a pretty well understood phenomenon, even if we sometimes feel powerless to do much about it. Everything seems to be going in one direction — more and more of our lives are caught up in our phones and what we do on them, which means we spend more and …
In keeping with the new trend in tech toward a focus on “time well spent” and how more emphasis needs to be put on users’ well being, Google has released an academic paper today from two of the search giant’s researchers that basically makes a depressing but unsurprising case. That the tech industry has turned …
No matter where you happen to live on this big blue ball we call Earth, chances are you’ve wandered a sidewalk or two while gazing at your beloved smartphone. It’s a bad habit and we all know it, but that hasn’t actually stopped any of us from getting tunnel vision as we stare emotionless at …
