We are helpless, humanist rowboats navigating the iPhone’s incessant dopamine waves.
Kevin Roose
iPhone: You’re Ruining Everything
Henry Blodget is crowing about the iPhone on its anniversary, calling it “the most radically successful and disruptive product in history.” He means “disruptive” in the way Silicon Valley types use it to describe anything that is cool and innovative, but he could just as easily be describing the innumerable ways in which the iPhone has distorted, disabled, and otherwise blown a Grand Canyon–size hole in our social fabric.

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