Audiobook \"The Smartphone Society\"
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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I've lost my phone, a woman wailed, choking down panic. She realized she'd left it on the back seat of the taxi on the way to the airport, bystanders quickly mustard to help calling the lost phone, offering advice and moral support. The woman was Lucy Kellaway. Aah! Financial Times reporter who later recounted her ordeal in a fluffy piece for the newspaper Kellaway observed that on the scale of human calamities, losing your phone is now seen as up there with cardiac arrest, and that even with her wallet and laptop still in hand as she sat in her hotel room that evening, she felt all wrong, exposed and vulnerable because her smartphone was hundreds of miles away. Most people have lost their phone at some point or have feared they had and have experienced that moment of sweaty, heart pounding dread. But Calloway's story is illuminating all the same. It captures our surprise and unease at how attached we've become, too pocket computers. We simply can't imagine life without them