{"id":52632,"date":"2026-01-31T06:04:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T06:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/we-have-lost-so-much-of-ourselves-to-smartphones-can-we-get-it-back\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T06:04:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T06:04:49","slug":"we-have-lost-so-much-of-ourselves-to-smartphones-can-we-get-it-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/we-have-lost-so-much-of-ourselves-to-smartphones-can-we-get-it-back\/","title":{"rendered":"We have lost so much of ourselves to smartphones: can we get it back?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My use of mobile phones has been compulsive \u2013 has it been for better or for worse?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2026\/jan\/31\/can-you-guess-our-screen-time-a-priest-pensioner-tech-ceo-and-teenager-reveal-all\">From a priest to a pensioner, a teenager to a tech CEO: can you guess our screen time?<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>In 2003, the Stanford social scientist <a href=\"https:\/\/behaviordesign.stanford.edu\/people\/bj-fogg\">BJ Fogg<\/a> published an extraordinarily prescient book. Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do<em> <\/em>predicted a future in which a student \u201csits in a college library and removes an electronic device from her purse\u201d. It serves as her \u201cmobile phone, information portal, entertainment platform, and personal organiser. She takes this device almost everywhere and feels lost without it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such devices, Fogg argued, would be \u201cpersuasive technology systems \u2026 the device can suggest, encourage, and reward.\u201d Those rewards could have a powerful effect on our relationship with these devices, akin to gamblers pumping quarters into slot machines.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jan\/31\/we-have-lost-so-much-of-ourselves-to-smartphones-can-we-get-it-back\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My use of mobile phones has been compulsive \u2013 has it been for better or for worse? \u2022 From a priest to a pensioner, a teenager to a tech CEO: can you guess our screen time? In 2003, the Stanford social scientist BJ Fogg published an extraordinarily prescient book. Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}