Why we spend so much time on our phones — I do not think its addiction
The everything device
I think we spend so much time on devices because, we do so so many things that used to be physical and visible on our phones now. Reading a book, writing, listening to music, looking for information, playing a game, developing a photo etc.
Then and now
Before the smart phone any one could walk into your space and know what you are doing. They can accurately conclude that, oh she is reading or he’s listening to a song etc. But now, when someone walks in and sees you using a phone, all the different activities you could be doing become invisible to the other person.
Everything you’re doing is just lumped into one thing — oh they are just using their phone.
It’s interesting.
Risks and convulsions
What are some of the disadvantages of having everything on one device?
The first that comes to my mind is the high risk of loosing too many important things at once when the single everything device is lost, faulty or has a low battery.
The good thing is that cloud computing makes it somewhat easy to restore things from lost devices to new ones, but this only works if you have backed up all you stuff before you loose your phone.
