A Phone Upgrade Isn’t a Life Upgrade

Most of us have little understanding of how our fascination with screens is changing us. We have trouble focusing on anything for more than a few seconds. We know a little about everything but no longer have the patience or desire to think or reason. And why should we? There’s an app to do that for us. Or we can ask ChatGPT to evaluate our options.

Add to that our fascination with the new. Our modern Tree of Knowledge is technology. The fruit sure looks appealing. We’re breathless at the way the new iPhone is smaller and faster and more of everything we never knew we needed. We believe the latest phone upgrade will somehow upgrade our lives. But the infatuation never lasts. It wasn’t meant to. Because as soon as the next new version comes out, the old one looks clunky and dated. The thrill is gone, and we move on.

Yet we’ll never find what we’re looking for in the artificial.

The artificial can never make us more real. Only more like itself— more unreal.

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