Welcome To The Age Of Digital Transcendence
Smartphones have become an extension of the owner; it is the closest we've ever become to being omnipresent and omniscient and — in a metaphorical sense, at least — divine, says Marcelo Gleiser.
by Marcelo Gleiser
Jan 23, 2018
4 minutes
I'm old enough to have grown up in a household with a single rotary telephone.
I imagine that most children would not know what to do with one today. Conversely, my grandparents, if I could bring them back to life, would have had no idea of what to do with a smartphone.
Technology changes the way we live â and it also changes us.
Sticking with the telephone as an illustration, something quite remarkable has happened in the past 40 years, the approximate timespan between the rotary and the smartphone. The old machines belonged to the household. The family had one number. Very rarely, you'd
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