But then again if I lose my phone I freak out it's very disturbing for me I lost my phone last year for a week

Oh my was beside myself not having a phone.

Do you know what I missed out on that week,

the thing that didn't happen?

Nothing at all.

I think some automotive marketing or something.

It turns out I'm not that special.

And I have great news, neither are any of you.

You're all God's children, rainbows, snowflakes, and all that stuff on creating cards.

I'm not saying otherwise. All I'm saying is, if somebody has to reach you by phone right now, it's not going to be fun. If I get a phone call and I have to deal with it right then,

it means that I got to drive a friend to the airport orage, a home for plucky misfits and problem solvers.

I'm your host Andrew Heaton, a man whose technological prowess is rooted in the late 1990s and whose fashion sense is tethered to the 1890s.

Earlier this year, my friend Rex appeared on the program to ask, if you could shut down the internet, would you?

Would life be better, pound for pound, with or without the internet, with all of the distractions and stress

that it has brought, would it be better go back to 1990 or to press forward.

It was a good conversation and it's linked to in today's episode description should

you like to check it out.

Well.

Well, well, well, it turns out one of my friends did it.

Journalist Chris Moody and his wife

thought about this question in general and decided that for

them the constant connectivity of modern life the looming threat of distraction afforded by their smartphones each and every

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