My name is Greg, and Iâm addicted to tech
Can new low-tech devices save us from ourselves, or will it take something more?
By Greg M. EpsteinUpdated January 1, 2021, 3:31 a.m.
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What kind of relationship with technology do we want, once basic safety now longer requires us to be so extremely online? Will habit keep us more wired than ever â more wired than we really want?HYUNHO SONG - stock.adobe.com
To break a compulsive streak of pandemic nights spent emailing and tweeting from my phone while half-watching HBO on my laptop, I uploaded some PDFs to my reMarkable 2: comic book scripts, actually, for the graphic-novel passion project Iâve procrastinated on for years. The reMarkable, a tablet from a Norwegian startup by the same name, is designed for reading, writing, and drawing only, advertising its purpose as âhelping you think.â Its implicit aim, beyond that, is to serve as an antidote to digital technologyâs maniacal pursuit of our