Let me count the ways in which I love my new phone: the clicky silver keys; the 10 minutes it now takes to write a text; the tinny jingle it plays when you switch it on. That’s right, I’ve dumped my iPhone and bought myself an old-style, internet‑free dumb phone (or “feature phone”, as the new branding would have it).
Admittedly some of my enthusiasm is pure nostalgia. I harbour a similar affection for toast and Marmite, and bleepy 1990s trance – these things take me back to a time when life was simpler, and humanity seemed to have a cat in hell’s chance of getting its act together. But ditching the smartphone is not purely a backward-looking decision. On the contrary: I would place a bet on 2019 being a year in which growing numbers of people join what is becoming known as the “attention resistance”.
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