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I still sit in waiting rooms and use public transport without looking at my phone. I tend to look at everyone else on their phones. 👀

What a shame, doesn't? I leave for a walk twice a week without my cell phone, exactly to be able to appreciate the surroundings.

So true.

If I'm looking at my phone then I'm bored.

Alongside real scocialisation, not this crappy FB / X thing. Talking about Human to Human interaction.

Have we eliminated boredom or simply changed what it looks like?

For some maybe… without technology, I wouldn’t be able to extend my contemplations very far. We have to choose how to use technology, or it will use us & siphon all our attention away. Delete apps sometimes. Lock in. Cycle back and forth. This is the way.. Escape from boredom with an intellectual pursuit, not the useless drudgery. Our phone is a portal to the whole universe, adventures sitting at our fingertips.

the pendulum will swing

This one sure aged well