You know those lockable phone bags that are being used to create phone-free spaces in schools and at concerts? Those are Yondr pouches. Join Catherine Price as she talks with Graham Dugoni, founder and CEO of Yondr, about what inspired him to create Yondr pouches, and his broader thoughts about how our interactions with technology affect how we experience the world. Warning: it's about to get philosophical.
My husband and I have started using BRICK. It’s a similar concept, but you can turn off or turn on any apps on your phone. And you need to tap your phone on the brick to activate or disable it. So if I tap my phone and leave the house? I can’t untapped it until I am back home.
One of the meta things I get here...it kinda reminds me of how global warming was "a joke" to so many still in 2007. Friendships and affiliations were broken or strained over it. And here we all are now. Similarly, it was "a joke" more recently to suggest smartphones and the shepherding of our attention(s) was anything we could or even should challenge. And here we are now. What other retroactive realizations are under the surface of "the present givens" I wonder. Promising : ).
Why can't people just turn their phones off? Are we in such a state that we can't trust ourselves to turn them off and leave them alone? I mean, I leave the phone alone when I work (from home, all the time) and certainly turn it off when I'm at the cinema, for example. It's not hard. And schoolkids could just hand them into the teacher....why do we need this? Am I missing something?
A lot of it has to do with boredom. When we are active and busy, of course we don’t really have the urge to look at our phones, but when we aren’t really doing anything worthwhile then it is easy to grab the phone and start scrolling.
My husband and I have started using BRICK. It’s a similar concept, but you can turn off or turn on any apps on your phone. And you need to tap your phone on the brick to activate or disable it. So if I tap my phone and leave the house? I can’t untapped it until I am back home.
BRICK is a neat concept! I see more and more people using it.
One of the meta things I get here...it kinda reminds me of how global warming was "a joke" to so many still in 2007. Friendships and affiliations were broken or strained over it. And here we all are now. Similarly, it was "a joke" more recently to suggest smartphones and the shepherding of our attention(s) was anything we could or even should challenge. And here we are now. What other retroactive realizations are under the surface of "the present givens" I wonder. Promising : ).
Why can't people just turn their phones off? Are we in such a state that we can't trust ourselves to turn them off and leave them alone? I mean, I leave the phone alone when I work (from home, all the time) and certainly turn it off when I'm at the cinema, for example. It's not hard. And schoolkids could just hand them into the teacher....why do we need this? Am I missing something?
A lot of it has to do with boredom. When we are active and busy, of course we don’t really have the urge to look at our phones, but when we aren’t really doing anything worthwhile then it is easy to grab the phone and start scrolling.
The addiction of algorithms and the dopamine hit of feedback loops
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