Mobile phones This column will change your life Addicted to digital technology? Here's how to beat the habit Banning yourself can have the perverse effect of making your phone more enticing. What you need to do is make it boring ‘Smartphones are a diabolical mixture of bad and very good.’ Illustration: Michele Marconi for the GuardianRecently, I bought a piece of digital technology to help me conquer my low-level addiction to digital technology. By contrast, Ditto replicates all the secret joy of accidentally leaving your phone at home, with none of the accompanying panic. The trouble is that smartphones, like most technology, aren’t simply bad.

Source: The Guardian January 26, 2018 15:00 UTC