Within a few years of its unveiling, the smartphone had become part of us, fully integrated into the daily patterns of our lives. Never offline, always within reach, we now wield in our hands a magic wand of technological power we have only begun to grasp. But it raises new enigmas, too. Never more connected, we seem to be growing more distant. Never more efficient, we have never been more distracted.
Drawing from the insights of numerous thinkers, published studies, and his own research, writer Tony Reinke identifies twelve potent ways our smartphones have changed us--for good and bad. Reinke calls us to cultivate wise thinking and healthy habits in the digital age, encouraging us to maximize the many blessings, avoid the various pitfalls, and wisely wield the most powerful gadget of human connection ever unleashed.
This article is part of the Infographics series.
In January of 2017, we asked our readers to answer some questions related to their phone usage, a topic Tony Reinke addresses in his new book 12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You. Like Tony, we were interested in probing the effect that our phones are having on us, day in and day out......
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April 11, 2017
This article is part of the 10 Things You Should Know series.
My smartphone is my untiring personal assistant, my irreplaceable travel companion, and my lightning-fast connection to friends and family. VR screen. Gaming device. Ballast for daily life. My intelligent friend, my alert wingman, and my ever-ready collaborator.......
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English (en)
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Tony Reinke,
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April 17, 2017
We check our smartphones about 81,500 times each year, or once every 4.3 minutes of our waking lives.
The impulse is not hard to understand. Our lives are consolidated on our phones: our calendars, our cameras, our pictures, our work, our workouts, our reading, our writing, our credit cards, our maps, our news, our weather, our email, our shopping—all of it can be managed with state-of-the-art apps in powerful little devices we carry everywhere. Even the GPS app on my phone, which guided me to a new coffee shop today, possesses thirty thousand times the processing speed of the seventy-pound onboard navigational computer that guided Apollo 11 to the surface of the moon.....
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English (en)
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Tony Reinke,
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A Review
Whether you’re in an airport, in line at the grocery store, or just sitting at your house, humanity’s new default setting seems to be lived through a screen. And Tony Reinke says we are changing as a result.
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English (en)
Authors
Kevin Halloran,
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1
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English (en)
Publisher
Cross Points Resources
Audio Release
2017-05-24
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Audio Interview
Duration
00:31:04
Language
English (en)
Authors
Tony Reinke,
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Paperback
Publisher
Crossway
Publication Date
2017-04-30
Number of Pages
224
Language
English (en)
Authors
Tony Reinke,
Type
Publicity
Date of Publicated
2017-05-03
Duration
00:02:03
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