A year without a smartphone

Ever thought about getting rid of your smartphone and regressing to the age of Nokia bricks and Motorola flip phones? Jason Kehe of Wired did, much to his mother’s chagrin. His starting point? The smartphone is “so integrated into our consciousness, can it even be hacked off?” Despite clearer phone calls, and the initial rush of detox, Kehe struggled with the inconveniences of life without a smartphone. “Without a working GPS, I was forced to scribble rights and lefts on napkins and receipts and, when those pieces of paper inevitably disappeared, call up 21st-century Googlers from the road, sometimes multiple times per journey.”