It’s been almost three years since those studies came out, so the numbers are likely even higher today.
That’s equivalent to a part-time job where you spend your entire shift hunched over a phone.
In 2016, Americans spent between two and a half and four hours on their phone every day, or over eighteen hours a week. That makes sense: manufacturers want you staring at their phones, and one of the ways they do that is by making the screen as beautiful as possible. Of all the hardware capabilities of a smartphone, the screen always gets a lot of attention. It helps many people check their phone less. Set your phone to grayscale to remove those positive reinforcements. We use all our tech and all our power to create better boxes.Ĭolorful icons give our brains shiny rewards every time we unlock. We could feed, clothe and connect the whole world in ways that are respectful of other humans, animals, and plants on this earth.īut we don’t. With all the amazing technology we have available, we could create tech that integrates us with the environment. Technology isn’t evil - quite the opposite. We have the technology to reach across the globe, and we use it to send little strings of text from our little boxes to other people’s little boxes. What she didn’t foresee were the little boxes we hold in our hands. Reynolds sings about the boxes we live in, the endless repetitive houses in the suburbs. Little boxes on the hillside Little boxes made of ticky-tacky Little boxes on the hillside Little boxes all the same There’s a pink one and a green one And a blue one and a yellow one And they’re all made out of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same Malvina Reynolds - Little Boxes We can video chat with people in rural villages on the other side of the world.Īnd we use that technology to build ourselves a series of boxes. We have the power to put people on the moon and we insert tiny robots in our bodies to do surgery. As a society, we are surrounded with groundbreaking technology.
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