9 Best Articles in 2022
The Atlantic
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
The Atlantic
20+ min read · From 2017 · More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 1337, including Jonathan Haidt, Justin Tiehen, Josh Elman, Curadoria | Update or Die!, Balaji Srinivasan, Damien Van Achter, Chris Messina, Thomas Power, Mark Kaigwa, Nick Lüthi, Stephen C Sanders, Howard Getson, AfroMum, Mathew Ingram, Liliane Ferrari ™, Gerd Leonhard, Oliver Gassner / @oliverg@mastodon.social 💉🖖💚🎓, Jane, Stowe Boyd, Azeem Azhar
Bloomberg
Amazon Drivers Are Hanging Smartphones in Trees to Get More Work
Bloomberg
4 min read · 2020-09-01 · A strange phenomenon has emerged near Amazon.com Inc. delivery stations and Whole Foods stores in the Chicago suburbs: smartphones dangling from trees. Contract delivery drivers are putting them there…
Shared by 234, including Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, Xose Alberte Cea, Mike Butcher🇬🇧🇪🇺, Brooks Rainwater, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Michael (मुकेश) 🇺🇦💪🏻, Dr. Janet D. Stemwedel, PhD 🏳️🌈, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Roland Wyss-Aerni, Katja Evertz, Josep M. Ganyet, Paul Roetzer, Merkstatt, Michael Seemann, Oliver Reichenstein, Jose Luis Calvo, Frederic Filloux, Mathew Ingram, Howard Getson
Benedict Evans
Mobile is eating the world
Benedict Evans
1 min read · From 2017 · As we pass 2.5bn smartphones on earth and head towards 5bn, and mobile moves from creation to deployment, the questions change. What's the state of the smartphone, machine learning and 'GAFA', and what can we build as we stand on the shoulders of giants?
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Benedict Evans
What comes after smartphones? — Benedict Evans
Benedict Evans
4 min read · 2020-12-13 · Computing has always moved forwards in jumps of scale, but smartphones reach everyone on earth, so what’s the next jump? AV and VR? Cloud, machine learning and crypto? Or is that the wrong model to…
Reader View · Shared by 210, including Gabriele, Lelio Simi, Johannes Dornisch, blinch, Michael Grupe, Merkstatt, Brian Halligan, Scott Brinker
Visual Capitalist
How Much Radiation is Emitted by Popular Smartphones?
Visual Capitalist
9 min read · Apr 14th · Smartphones have become an integral part of our everyday lives. From work and school to daily tasks, these handheld devices have brought everything into the palm of our hands. Most people spend 5-6…
Reader View · Shared by 133, including Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Frank Gruber, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe & Carpe Diem, George J Huba PhD, Esther Schindler
Vox
It’s hard to be a moral person. Technology is making it harder.
Vox
~16 min read · 2021-08-03 · Digital distractions such as social media and smartphones wreak havoc on our attention spans. Could they also be making us less ethical?
Reader View · Shared by 650, including Scott Monty, Dr. Alec Couros, Merkstatt, Claudio Noguera, Nick Diakopoulos, Jessy Lane, Dj Mckenzie, Sherry Turkle, Andreas Staub, Thomas Power, Gerd Leonhard, Brian Ahier, Tactical Tech
mp.weixin.qq.com
Gum Sales Are Down 30% – Because of Smartphones
mp.weixin.qq.com
From 2019 · Chewing gum has become a lot less popular, and smartphones are to blame. Smartphones and social media are fundamentally changing people’s life styles, behaviors and transaction habits. Gum is just one of many products that have taken a hit. In this article from Man Tou Education, a business and management learning platform, contributor Mumu Seo looks at the secondary consequences of smartphones, technology and social media and explains how they affect unrelated industries.
Summary · Shared by 3, including getAbstract
Longreads
A Sociology of the Smartphone
Longreads
20+ min read · From 2017 · Smartphones have altered the texture of everyday life, digesting many longstanding spaces and rituals, and transforming others beyond recognition.
Reader View · Shared by 172, including Valiskster, Mark Kaigwa, Thomas Power, k, Jean Decherf, Howard Getson, Carly, Tauno, 🍂 سعد, Antonio García, Carl Morris, Gerd Leonhard, Andrzej Jóźwik, Harpreet Singh
gizchina.com
Top 24 countries whose citizens are most addicted to smartphones
gizchina.com
5 min read · Feb 13th · Top 24 countries whose citizens are most addicted to smartphones. China, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia are the top three countries on the list
Reader View · Shared by 93
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Lifehacker
Why You Should Use an eSIM Card the Next Time You Travel
Lifehacker
3 min read · May 24th · Newer smartphones have an electronic SIM card embedded inside—here's how to use it.
Reader View · Shared by 91, including tenty, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
WIRED
How the Amish Use Technology
WIRED
3 min read · Jun 7th · Community members’ relationships to smartphones or the internet reflect local values and nuances of group identity.
Shared by 87, including Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Backchannel, ➤ Cyril Druesne, Marsha Collier
VentureBeat
Xbox plans to launch a streaming puck and Samsung app in the next year
VentureBeat
1 min read · May 9th · Xbox cloud streaming is going to grow beyond the consoles, smartphones, and PC in the near future. Xbox is planning new apps and devices.
Reader View · Shared by 67
a16zcrypto.com
Blockspace: What Comes After PCs, Broadband, and Smartphones
a16zcrypto.com
~11 min read · Jun 1st · Blockspace, or blockchain computation and storage, may be the decade's hit tech product just as PCs, broadband, and mobile phones once were.
Reader View · Shared by 26, including yeon, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
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The Wall Street Journal
How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds
The Wall Street Journal
2 min read · From 2017 · Research suggests that as the brain grows dependent on phone technology, the intellect weakens.
Shared by 144, including jz, Ⓓarío Macchi, Bernhard Huessy, Jose Paul Martin, Oleg Baskov, ⎝Stéphan Lam⎠, Azeem Azhar, Gerd Leonhard, Valiskster, Mark Kaigwa, Tris Hussey, Merkstatt, Jakub Albert Ferenc
The New Yorker
The Mind-Expanding Ideas of Andy Clark
The New Yorker
20+ min read · From 2018 · The tools we use to help us think—from language to smartphones—may be part of thought itself.
Reader View · Shared by 291, including Florian Hanke 🍎, Jakub Albert Ferenc, Chris Messina, Adriano Latorre, Joe Germuska, Valiskster, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Andrzej Jóźwik, hardmaru, Jane, Dominik Grolimund, Helmi, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Ha Duong, Liliane Ferrari ™
Business Insider
Smartphones of the future could work in a completely different way thanks to 5G, and it means…
Business Insider
2 min read · From 2019 · Smartphones can't become obsolete if they don't actually run our apps. In the future, we might be streaming our apps over 5G.
Reader View · Shared by 68, including Real Marsha Wright®, Merkstatt, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Elena Neira, Hans Bickhofe, Prof. Arun Kumar वाघचौरे
nytimes.com
Are Teenagers Replacing Drugs With Smartphones?
nytimes.com
~17 min read · From 2017 · The use of smartphones and tablets has exploded over the same period that drug use has declined among American teens. Researchers say the correlation is worth exploring.
Reader View · Shared by 53, including Nir Eyal, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯🕶, Merkstatt, Kim Dik, Shanna Peeples she/her 🏳️🌈, Thomas Power, Tauno, Mark Kaigwa
The Guardian
Intimate data: can a person who tracks their steps, sleep and food ever truly be free?
The Guardian
9 min read · 2021-10-05 · Big tech now encourages us to monitor everything from our heart rate to our glucose levels via smartphones and watches. How much privacy have we lost to the promise of self improvement - and is it…
Reader View · Shared by 194, including Tactical Tech, Carissa Véliz, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Jeff Jarvis, Matthew Holt, Berci Meskó, MD, PhD, Chris Dancy 🐵👱🏼♂️🤖
MIT Technology Review
AI can now train on tiny 4-bit computers
MIT Technology Review
4 min read · 2020-12-11 · Powerful neural networks could soon train on smartphones with dramatically faster speeds and less energy.
Reader View · Shared by 194, including AI, Harold Sinnott 📲 #SiemensAtCollision, Terence Mills, niazakhan, Nicolas Babin, John Nosta, Brian Ahier, Martina Pugliese, Katja Evertz, Merkstatt, ipfconline, andre hollstein
Gizmodo
Why These Social Networks Failed So Badly
Gizmodo
~15 min read · From 2019 · Sixteen years ago, the sun set on Web 1.0, and we embarked by the light of our smartphones to 24/7 connectivity, down a road paved with corporate blunders, littered with yesterday’s top 8 friends,…
Reader View · Shared by 194, including Liliane Ferrari ™, Talkwalker, Harpreet Singh, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Bas Grasmayer, Amy Jo Kim, Builtvisible, Andy Sporring 1️⃣6️⃣8️⃣ 🚢🚢🚢, Dominik Grolimund, Bjorn Larsen, Stephanie A Kowalski, Chris Messina, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Matt Navarra, Dr. Alec Couros, Jane, Thomas Power, Jan Firsching 🦦™️, Adam Tinworth, Mark Tabladillo PhD
youtube.com
Google Maps Hacks by Simon Weckert
youtube.com
From 2020 · 99 smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps.Through this activity, it is possible to turn a green street red ...
Shared by 188, including Sylvie Reinhard, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Dr. Alec Couros, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, hernannadal, 𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧 , Fabrizio Bianchi, Ethan Marcotte, Mark Kaigwa, Jörgen Camrath, Dan Ariely, Anthony Hamelle, Geeks are Sexy, Tregg 🤘, CyberCodeTwins.eth 👾 NFT NYC WEEK🗽, Kenneth Kalmer, Jennifer Daniel, Merkstatt, Mathew Ingram, Scott Murray
Psychology Today
No, Smartphones are Not Destroying a Generation
Psychology Today
~19 min read · From 2017 · The kids are gonna be all right
Reader View · Shared by 92, including Christian Fauteux, Weiting Chen, Stephanie A Kowalski, Klaus Eck, Nils Hitze, Oliver Gassner / @oliverg@mastodon.social 💉🖖💚🎓, Tillmann Allmer, Thomas Power, Uwe Sinha, Martina Grolimund, Merkstatt, Jelan Ong, Mark Kaigwa, Jeeva Vijay Prasath
