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Calling for Change: Controlling Our Smartphone Use
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Johan
Larsson
By Diana Pedersen !
CALLING FOR!
CHANGE!
2. “In the past 50
years we have
moved from
"mainframe"
computers that
needed their
own rooms to
ones that fit in
a p ocke t ...”
-Charles Arthur
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StarAlex1
9. O r t o l o o k u p
ON-THE-SPOT
d i r e c t i o n s
A N Y T I M E ,
A N Y P L A C E .
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momentcaptured1
10. Technology-enabled, we are able to be with one
another, and also elsewhere, connected to
wherever we want to be. -Sherry Turkle
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Tatsuo
Yamashita
11. With so much to offer, people are
becoming DEPENDENT on their
mobile devices…
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Phil
Campbell
12. …Using them as their primary source of
communication, and spending less time
interacting with the ones they are with.
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D.
Sharon
PruiH
13. Young adults spend up to 7
hours a day interacting with
communication technology,
sending an average of 109.5
text messages each day…
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zoutedrop
14. 50% of smartphone owners sleep next
to their phone to make sure they don’t
miss any calls, text messages, or other
updates during the night…
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Edwin
van
Buuringen
15. And 62 percent of mobile phone
users aged 18-24 immediately grab
t h e i r p h o n e a f t e r w a k i n g u p .
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Mislav
Marohnić
16. "I really need to have
that connection and
that attachment to
my phone all the
time.” -Michael Weller, a
high school senior
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TheArches
17. "We've sort of hit a tipping point. The
conversation has shifted from wow,
isn't all this technology cool to wow,
how do we control it?” – Aisha Sultan
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Phil
Campbell
20. The solution is in
our hands. We must
learn to balance our
time. To live in the
moment, and stop
relying on our
hand-held devices
to give us purpose.
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thebarrowboy
21. "Don't take a zillion pictures and videos.
There is no need to document everything.
Live your experiences. They will be stored in
your memory for eternity.” –Janell B. Hofmann,
parent of 13 year old mobile user!
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Mike
Monaghan
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Zdenko
Zivkovic
"Keep your eyes up. See the
world happening around you. Stare
out a window. Listen to
the birds. Take a walk. Talk to a
stranger. Wonder
without Googling.”–Janell B. Hofmann
