Smartphone

The Smartphone is a powerful tool that unlocks a huge amount of information, access to instant communication and countless tools and apps to serve us as users.

Previously if we needed to research, read or discover new information we would visit a library, pull out an interesting book and get reading, trying to find the relevant information to answer our questions. With the birth of the internet and subsequently; search engines we could login to our computers, go online and get our answers within minutes and now, with smart phones that stay in our pockets and much faster internet speeds; within 20 seconds we have our answer from google.?

It’s clear that the Smartphone has revolutionised the way we learn, communicate and go about our day and the positive effects are very visible. Due to faster communication and transferring information so quickly the learning curve has dramatically accelerated, brilliant!

Unfortunately, we are all human and we don’t all use this powerful technology to benefit mankind and solve world problems. Instead, social media apps are so well designed to provide dopamine hit through notifications that people tend to be stuck for hours on tasks of relatively low importance with no other benefit than to provide some mild entertainment, like watching videos of cats on Facebook.?

Have you ever been stuck on your Facebook news feed for 30 mins and realised you were lost?

You're not alone.