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101: The Flip Phone Experiment

Time and Attention

CHAPTER

The Pros and Cons of Digital Communication

John Sutter: Modern communication kind of sucks. He says we can connect with anybody on the planet in the moment, but at the expense of that analog connection. We just walk past all of them because we're listening to something from our phone and using our phone as well, he says. "It's based on us trading dopamine hits with one another instead of genuinely connecting with somebody"

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