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Why the hell do we need smart phones anyway? Just 15 years ago, before the original digital sin product began the process to do us all in, we lived just fine without being able to consult the do no evil brothers to answer any question we had on a whim. And we were just fine with that. Nowadays you'd be hard pressed to find anyone so much as simply waiting in a restaurant for their food to come without their nose being buried in their phone. People don't even know how to be themselves anymore, they get uncomfortable if they have to just sit or stand there without their constant stimulus of memes and posts. The greatest thing that could happen perhaps would be a power outage long enough that everyone's phone dies for at least a week.

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Dickens used to wander the streets of London at all hours observing, overhearing, or just being lost in his own thoughts while letting the characters and plots of his latest creation come to fruition internally. His works may or may not be to one's liking, but there's a larger point. How much creativity, philosophy, and invention are squashed by that dictatorial demonic device?

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The great irony of these times is they are called smart devices. They are smart, so you don't have to be.

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