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When was the last time you turned off your smartphone?
Several weeks ago no doubt, several months perhaps.
These devices that never leave us, our "digital cuddly toys", are no longer designed to be turned off.
Everything in them distracts us from it.
A "power" button.
Alex Schmitt, Creative Commons.
This is the observation drawn up in
Anesthetized: humanity under the influence of technology
, an indictment essay published last Friday by FYP editions.
The author, Diego Hidalgo, creator of Spanish start-ups (he founded the local BlaBlaCar, Amovens), is part of this caste of repentants who can no longer see digital in painting.
His table of the excesses of tech, quite complete, mixes the usual criticisms against a background of quotations from Orwell and Bernanos: surveillance society, planned obsolescence, cult of data.
All this has already been written by others.
A passage caught my attention.
Calling for us to “
mentally protect ourselves in…
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