Jan 18th, 2022: Be Smart with Smartphones

 


Blackberry cell phones finally died on Jan 4th. The picture above is one of mine. It was one of the last ones with Blackberry OS. When President Obama got elected for the first time, it was the phone to have. Some people say iPhone killed it. Others say that the lack of vision from the leadership of Blackberry did it to themselves.


Smartphones have become a hub for everything we do. We use them more than just for business. We use them for communication and entertainment. We study and work on projects with them. We prepare presentations and create artworks with them as well. Smart devices are now dictating our lives. Many of us have become addicted to them., study, 


We become more distracted and disconnected from one another in some ways. We truncate our communication via texts. We become impatient. We might connect digitally, but we remove ourselves from each other emotionally.


Our needs for convenience and comfort have also taken us to the point where our whole life is now monitored, controlled, and manipulated by algorithm designers. They have impacted both private and public life. We have lost our sense of boundary. We don't know how to be fully present when we are together.


"Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth." - Colossians 3: 2


"Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun." - Ecclesiastes 2: 11

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