Comments on: Has Your Smartphone Replaced Your Brain?

By: Stephen Kunts

Stephen Kunts — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 10:45:34 +0000

For more than a decade I did not have a cell phone. Having bought in to it in the 90s, I quickly realized that I was paying a high premium for a phone I never used. By 2014 my friends, family, coworkers were nagging me to get a phone, for emergency or occasional use. Not finding a simple flip phone, with a few functions, I ended up getting a simple smart phone. BAD move. It was a leaning curve, I could not handle. Fortunately being like a bar of soap it slipped out of my pocket when I was on a tall ladder and the scree shattered. The flip phone replacement is annoying enough, as it tries to be a smart phone, with many unnecessary functions. My real gripe has to to do with everyone at my work place, who are 100% addicted. The amount of time they spend fondling their phone makes every job take more time and thus less profitable. not to mention the amount of time they have to reorient themselves to their work task. Its is no different than those who still smoke, and are paid for their many 15 minute smoke breaks. WHAT ARE THEY ALL LOOK AT ON THOSE PHONES????????

By: William

William — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 11:11:29 +0000

Please provide any scientific studies that discuss the physical addiction aspects of hand held device dopamine or other addictions. I believe this device is ushering an electronic holocaust that has and will continue to handicap our youth.

By: Sante

Sante — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 12:37:52 +0000

Thank you Grace for this crucial article in a media craze world we live in.

It is a complete irony that we buy these smartphones thinking it is going to add value to our lives but in actual fact it creates, loneliness through isolation, reflectors and not thinkers, addicts and not enthusiasts.

Technology is great when it doesn’t eat away our brains!!!!