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When you need apps to be human

I use meditation apps, sleep apps, focus apps, and relationship apps and I cannot do any of these things without my phone anymore even though phones are why I need the apps in the first place.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Technology creates the problems it then offers to solve, making you dependent on tools for capacities you once possessed naturally.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Technology and human identity — who are we with our tools??”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.