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"There’s a gadget doing well in Australian online stores at the moment that
retrofits a smartphone into a landline.
You plug a coiled, corded handset into the charging port, and the smartphone is
suddenly attached to a clunky plastic receiver you hold to your ear, cord
dangling, the way phones worked before they became small and mobile enough to
fit in a pocket. It costs about A$20, and appears to be a retro novelty
accessory.
What looks like a quirky fad may be a reflection of something deeper that I’ve
been observing in my research on smartphone use in recent years.
We’ve come a long way from Nokia “bricks” with chunky buttons to sleek
smartphones we keep close at all times. But after several decades of moving
closer to our devices, more people are now looking for ways to gain some
distance again. At the same time, this distancing isn’t available for everyone.
So what’s going on?"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
