Of course, the most ubiquitous of the lot is the smartphone: the item upon which this smart revolution was founded.īut people are sick of the deluge of information – the constant communications, notifications, and updates – they’re crying out for silence.Įnter, the basic phone (street name: 'dumbphone'): an obtuse, analogue throwback to the days when phones were phones, and not cameras, personal assistants, GPS systems, games consoles, fitness trackers, debit cards, shopping websites, and the rest of it. Throw a stone in a tech shop these days (please don’t actually do this) and you’ll hit about fifteen ‘smart’ devices, from light bulbs to fridges, toasters to televisions, speakers to security systems. Never have those three words been more true than with smart devices in 2019. It was Geoffrey Chaucer who wrote, back in 1386, that “familiarity breeds contempt”.
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