Tiger C. Roholt, "Distracted from Meaning: A Philosophy of Smartphones" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Smartphones and Distractions
I think there's something special going on with smartphones That has to do with the kind of often rehearsed Perceptual and behavioral habits that we develop with smartphones. And so I think it's kind of a special A special example Unlike some of these other more typical ones Right. Um, so let me so speaking of distractions. Are there other Other things that also distract us that disrupt us from the sorts of engagement that you're interested in besides smartphones? Yeah, well, there I mean clearly there are If you just think about examples like You know being in a philosophy seminar People have always been distracted by whisper conversations and doodling and various, you know getting distracted from what's going on
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