Is There Life After Smartphones?

After a long rather NY style secular story omitted we get to the [ikkar] or punch line:

[…] and seemed to know everyone worth knowing. “And when I asked her for social info,” Keahna said, “she pulled out a business card and a flip phone.”

He recognized the technology from his childhood, but it had been years since he’d seen it in the wild, and certainly not in the hands of someone so demonstrably cool. Zavaglia “was my age,” Keahna said. “She had an active social life, an active work schedule, a creative career. And she was doing it all while being far more offline than me.”

The Pew Research Center, which put teenage smartphone access at 37 percent in 2012, had it at 95 percent in 2024

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/03/31/magazine/quit-smartphone-addiction-social-media.html

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Comment: Our Rabbis knew this along time ago. When will the klal wake up? There is a smarter life without all that “smart stuff”!