The Last Thing We Need Are Smartphones

When so many problems of existence remain unsolved, we haven't earned the luxury of smartphones. So this is an intervention. A challenge to the status quo of waste and distraction and triviality and short-term pile-on that is our way of life here in 2019...

Links

• "Give it a second! It's going to space!"
• "not just actual attention but the promise of future, fictional, vaporous attention" - Dan Hon
• Flint, Michigan still doesn't have clean water
• Bill Gates made a machine that turns feces into drinkable water
• It’s In the Bag! Teenager Wins Science Fair, Solves Massive Environmental Problem

Music

All music used in this episode is independently produced and licensed by Design Tomorrow for non-commercial use.

• Invicta, by Blue Dot Sessions
• Bloom, by r beny
• Electribe 2 Meets System 1, by r beny
• 4-Track Cassette Drone, by r beny
• Comma, by Blue Dot Sessions

Credits

Design Tomorrow is produced by Chris Butler at the Tomorrow office in Durham, NC.

You can follow the show on Twitter @dsgntmrrw. You can visit the show's website at designtomorrow.co, and you can email me at chris @ designtomorrow.co.

Thanks for listening, and remember, what we do and think today can create a better tomorrow.

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