This Is Why I Have Never Owned a Smartphone

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The internet was a mistake.

It’s not just that online life has been privatized and controlled by powerful, unseen forces. It’s that it’s very structure is antithetical to what is innately human, to what connects people, to the only things that really matter in this fleeting existence. We, all of us, are being forced into an increasingly inhuman world, told it is progress, and nobody is counting the costs.

I am asking you to count those costs with me. Please.

Thank you for watching.

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Suggestions for further reading / watching:
A (not) manifesto for a supposed anti-tech movement by Freddie DeBoer: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/...

Some 1990s nostalgia: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/...

Adam Curtis documentary, "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace": https://thoughtmaybe.com/all-watched-...

The Gig Is Up documentary

Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant

If We Burn by Vincent Bevins

Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff

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