I’ve now lived without social media and without a smartphone for the past 3 years. And I’m still alive. A lot of people have asked me how I made it. So I wrote an article about it. The why, the how, and the now.
Our mini internet study has come to an end. In this series we've seen the new actors and spaces introduced by the internet, the actors using them, from the new economies, to netizens in between, to state actors. We've also took some reflective time to understand why we can be susceptible to biases and why we have so much difficulties ...
The internet is a new resource and when introduced in our social structures it has fueled the construction of utilities around it. Like any tool it has no effects on its own but only through its usages. In particular, it has altered our capacity of communication making it interactive, multimodal, asynchronous or synchronous, global or local, man...
Humans are prone to manipulations by their own experiences and biases. Let's review what are some of the cognitive biases and cultural weaknesses that make us fall for all sort of things on the internet. We've already looked at coercion, deception, and other types of persuasion principles in a previous sections. In the following two w...
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Someone (not Einstein) Smartphones are addictive and highly distracting. Their mere presence reduces cognitive ability. I tried getting rid of mine - or at least of its intensive usage - many times over and have failed. Here’s my attempt at another shot, inspired by this article. Day 1 (27.03.21) Attempting to setup my old Ericsson T28s, which stores all contacts on the SIM card. iOS doesn’t allow to copy contacts to a SIM card anymore, so I found an old Android phone and connected it with my Google account to synchronize contacts. Tried 3 different SIM tooling apps but none of them manages to copy contacts over the SIM card. After a bit of research it turns out that most SIM cards issued by operators these days are read-only.