The Smartphone Revolution
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2017
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Creative Writing
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Center for Contemporary and Creative Writing
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Over the past week, I joined the very few adults in the world that do not have a phone. I
previously referred to myself as a technology assailant. However, living on a college campus
without a phone for a week illuminated the benefits of The Smartphone that I previously took for
granted. When I reunited with my smartphone at the end of the week, I even concluded that
living without a phone, even a smartphone, is unnecessary to be present and undistracted. If I can
ration the applications on my iPhone, keeping only the necessary ones and allotting myself times
when I can have “guilty-pleasure apps” (like Facebook), then maybe my experiment can become
a blueprint for a larger social movement to save college students from incomplete,
technologically disrupted lives.