A small but growing movement wants you to put down your phone
News Source : Abcnews.com
News Summary
- Two decades after Steve Jobs premiered the iPhone, a small but passionate movement is rebelling against the omnipresent screen.
- “They want to take down Big Tech,” says Dan Fox, a stand-up comedian who works in marketing for Light Phone.
- Mobile internet access has so thoroughly permeated modern life that one of the few places in the world where it’s not readily available is Iran, where authorities shut down the internet during mass protests in January.
- There are several dozen “attention activism’ groups across the United States, and the movement has also cropped up in Spain, Italy, Croatia, France and England.
NEW YORK More than a dozen millennials gathered in a brownstone apartment in Brooklyn and placed their phones in a metal colander before two hours of reading, drawing and conversation anything but [+5154 chars]
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