this article is extremely overwrought. it's hard to get past the author's delight in his own cleverness. anyway, I am getting bored with articles describing ho

this article is extremely overwrought. it's hard to get past the author's delight in his own cleverness. anyway, I am getting bored with articles describing how smartphones are ruining our culture. smartphones are a natural result of digital hardware development. if apple hadn't released the iPhone someone else would have gotten there eventually. they are the ultimate computer, the end of the road for devices that have an LCD screen. the next big step will be something like a HUD or direct brain interface. meanwhile, annoying quirks and flaws in the software will recede over time, just like cooperative multitasking and DLL hell receded from desktop OS's. I agree that smartphones are damaging our culture. so do many others. what are we going to do about it? smartphones aren't going away. sadly, it's in the developer's economic interest to exploit addiction behavior in its users. it all feels inevitable to me. so I don't care how eloquently you describe the culture damage, I want to hear your ideas on how to fix it.