

I don’t think I have a healthy relationship with mine. I want to ask people a simple question: are you happy with your relationship with your phone. If we all feel it, is there anything we can do to stop it. What are we losing – of ourselves, of our relationships to one another, of what in many ways, I would say, our humanity.

And I want to talk about what’s causing it. As a culture, we’ve got a crisis of attention. SHOW VIDEOI want to talk three things tonight. Tech talk – CONSTANT CULTURE OF DISTRACTIONI want to start with some imagery of the way we live today. What can we do about it? Is this path inevitable or can balance be restored? I’ve pasted the text of the speech below (sorry, it’s a bit rough).Īlternatively, you can watch the video someone shot of it. And we inhibit real human connection when we prioritize our phones over our the people right in front of us. We threaten the key ingredients behind creativity and insight by filling up all our “gap” time with stimulation. We are losing some very important things by doing this. People now feel anxious when their brains are unstimulated. We are creating and encouraging a culture of distraction where we are increasingly disconnected from the people and events around us and increasingly unable to engage in long- form thinking. A few weeks ago I gave this rough presentation on a topic called “Slow. When you’ve only exchanged brief hellos, it can be tough to ask. Not all of us have an easy time getting to know the people who live above, below, or next to us. Between 13, it was the name of coins worth 1 livre tournois and. The franc also commonly distinguished as the French franc (FF), was a currency of France.
