On this week's episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel talks with his Atlantic colleague Kaitlyn Tiffany about what our phones are doing to us. Tiffany recently wrote about swapping her iPhone for a flip phone as part of a movement called 'Month Offline.' Kaitlyn talks through her personal experience: the joys and inconveniences of a dumbphone and the difficulty of unplugging completely. Warzel and Tiffany talk about the growing smartphone backlash, legal cases against 'big tech,' and how, even if many people are convinced that their phones are a problem, the science remains far from conclusive regarding direct harm. Kaitlyn Tiffany: There's been this sort of clamor for something to happen for long enough that even people who wouldn't really care to be reading the news of tech policy every single day will be internalizing this idea of like: Social media and smartphones are really bad for us, and I should be trying to use mine less. 'It's Obviously the Phones.' That was the title of...
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