How Does Smartphone Dependence Kidnap Our Lives?

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In 2007, the first-generation iPhone was released, completely transforming the mobile phone. In the 10 years that followed, mobile phones changed the world.

I forget where I read a line that said:The world is so big, stop staring at your phone.

After reading it, I felt it really made sense, so I quickly put down my phone and prepared to take a good look at this world.

Hmm, but I discovered that the whole world is on their phones, and the people who looked up like me just wanted to ask what the wifi password is.

In the past, a mobile phone was just a communication tool. Later on, the mobile phone turned into a "Dementor" - leave it for a few minutes and you start losing your soul, with an inexplicable panic in your heart.

Because it is your wallet - if you forget to charge it before going out, you might be so broke you cannot even afford the subway. It is also your photo album, recording your joys and sorrows and the trivialities of life. It is also your playmate, keeping you company raising frogs and playing battle royale, and taking you to browse the world.

Canadian media scholar McLuhan once said:"The medium is the extension of man."

So it is also your eyes and hands for communicating with this world; you cannot lose contact, and you dare not lose contact.

All these things were foreseen as early as 2003, in the era when feature phones dominated.

Today we excerpt and share a passage from How are things: A Philosophical Experiment, published in 2003, by the French bestselling author Roger-Pol Droit.

Although this is a work from 15 years ago, the depictions in the book hit the nail on the head about our "kidnapped by mobile phones" life today: