Put
your smartphone away, you're missing the
entire history of you
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**,
you're **t
that important
or busy. Put
your smartphone away and pay more attention to the world around you.
Better yet, leave
your smartphone over there, where you can't get to it for a few hours.*
**w breathe deep and try **t to panic. The world (probably) isn’t going to end while
you're deprived of
your mobile pacifier. That's what a lot of us are thinking, but we're too heads down in our smartphones to tell each other that.*
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Up to 25% of Accidents Are Associated With Gadgets
The Handmaid's Tale, The Hunger Games, the
Divergent ******, somehow **ne of these dystopian sci-fi parables have prepared us for a tech**-centric world in which the shuffling, oblivious zombies are
us. In 2016, a report in the
Wall Street Journal cited stats from the Consumer Product Safety Commission indicating that emergency room visits by distracted pedestrians using mobile phones were up 124 percent from 2014. The
same report claimed that such accidents have increased 10-fold from 2006. Let there be ** doubt, although we're increasingly aware of our
distracted driving problems, we also have a serious distracted walking problem.*
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