Would you trade your smartphone for a dumb phone?
Flip phones are back in style. Reset checks in with a local principal who switched from a smartphone to a “dumb phone” and isn’t going back.
Nine out of ten people in the U.S. own a smartphone, according to the Pew Research Center. As our society becomes built around this technology, some people are nostalgic for a different time — where smartphones didn’t dominate daily life.
There’s a burgeoning movement to switch to flip phones and other so-called “dumb phones” that have less flashy features. Other people have decided to create technology that can restrict the distracting, addicting features of smartphones.
Reset discusses with a pair of people who have decided to curb their smartphone capabilities — or get rid of them entirely.
GUESTS: Seth Lavin, Chicago Public Schools principal who got a flip phone more than half a year ago
TJ Driver, co-founder of Brick, a device that temporarily blocks apps from your phone
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Would you trade your smartphone for a dumb phone?
Flip phones are back in style. Reset checks in with a local principal who switched from a smartphone to a “dumb phone” and isn’t going back.
Nine out of ten people in the U.S. own a smartphone, according to the Pew Research Center. As our society becomes built around this technology, some people are nostalgic for a different time — where smartphones didn’t dominate daily life.
There’s a burgeoning movement to switch to flip phones and other so-called “dumb phones” that have less flashy features. Other people have decided to create technology that can restrict the distracting, addicting features of smartphones.
Reset discusses with a pair of people who have decided to curb their smartphone capabilities — or get rid of them entirely.
GUESTS: Seth Lavin, Chicago Public Schools principal who got a flip phone more than half a year ago
TJ Driver, co-founder of Brick, a device that temporarily blocks apps from your phone