(The following is the manuscript for episode ten of season one of the Breaking the Digital Spell podcast, which premiered on October 23rd, 2018. Available wherever you get your podcasts, or you can listen online here.) I got my first cell phone for my 16th birthday: it was a Nokia flip phone with no Internet access and restricted call/texting functionality past 10PM. This was in September of 2007, just a couple months after the original iPhone hit store shelves. As a newly-minted 16 year old, I was just happy to have a cell phone to text my friends. The iPhone was really cool – the worship intern for my church’s youth ministry got an iPhone on day one – but I didn’t think it’s features were necessary. I was more than content with smashing a number multiple times to get a certain letter and doing this over and over and over again – the touchscreen keyboard of an iPhone was just bling.
S1E10: The Useful Distraction of Smartphones
S1E10: The Useful Distraction of Smartphones
S1E10: The Useful Distraction of Smartphones
(The following is the manuscript for episode ten of season one of the Breaking the Digital Spell podcast, which premiered on October 23rd, 2018. Available wherever you get your podcasts, or you can listen online here.) I got my first cell phone for my 16th birthday: it was a Nokia flip phone with no Internet access and restricted call/texting functionality past 10PM. This was in September of 2007, just a couple months after the original iPhone hit store shelves. As a newly-minted 16 year old, I was just happy to have a cell phone to text my friends. The iPhone was really cool – the worship intern for my church’s youth ministry got an iPhone on day one – but I didn’t think it’s features were necessary. I was more than content with smashing a number multiple times to get a certain letter and doing this over and over and over again – the touchscreen keyboard of an iPhone was just bling.