No, You Don’t Suffer From Smartphone Addiction

The telephone. The thing you scream at and screams back at you. Other than the ol’ ball and chain, of course. Infinitely faster and cheaper than paying the neighbour boy to run to the other side of town with a message on a piece of paper, a lot less dirty than carrier pigeons, and as long as you don’t live in a dictatorial regime, allegedly, a lot more private. Yay for phone sex!  Recently, I found myself having to look up when the very first mobile phone became available for commercial use. My hunch that it was before my time — 1985 that is — was actually correct. Motorola launched their first commercially available mobile handset in 1983¹. Imagine that for a second. Being the company and the team responsible for giving the world the option of not being tied — quite literally — to wherever people’s landline sat in the home, and still being able to have a reliable, decent quality conversation with someone far away. It might seem like not that big a deal today, but it changed the world forever in more ways than we could have ever imagined. <blockquote> The invention of the mobile phone was the moon landing of human communication. One short call for two people, one giant leap for all mankind. </blockquote> <a href="https://medium.com/digital-diplomacy/no-you-dont-suffer-from-smartphone-addiction-e874e599ed69">Website</a>