Rashida Jones On Smartphone Life: ‘I Can’t Anymore’
The actress, writer and producer made a bold tech choice after writing an episode of ‘Black Mirror.’
In the latest example of celebrities feeling the same technology and social media pressures as the rest of us, Vulture reports that Rashida Jones has joined the dumbphone movement, ordering a phone that, as Jones puts it, “just makes phone calls.”
Jones talked about her pared-down phone during an interview with Vulture, saying “I just ordered a phone which is called a dumbphone which is the opposite of a smartphone and it just makes phone calls. I’ve gone from being slightly pondering and having a bit of a filter between me and technology to just feeling like I can’t anymore.”
Vulture explained her purchase as a response to writing an episode of the Netflix anthology sci-fi series, Black Mirror. Her episode, “Nosedive,” co-written with Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine writer/producer Michael Shur, is a particularly startling installment of the series: Every human is given a numerical ranking based on how other people rate them after each and every social interaction — and you can view their ranking as soon as you see someone, via tech-enabled contact lenses or retinal implants. The episode was released in fall 2016.
Jones didn’t specify which phone she bought, but with the rise of anti-smartphones, there are quite a few she could have picked from.
Watch a clip of the Vulture interview here.
