The following are the source and reference materials used for The Papercuts Library #6 – You and Your Phone are Boring
Warning: Spoilers ahead…
The following links are not comprehensive or exhaustive in any capacity. #6 is not really a research product…
…it’s more real than that…
…but for the record…
p3 –
- Mobile phone – Wikipedia
- Feature phone – Wikipedia
- Smartphone – Wikipedia
- Smartphones—The good, the bad and the ugly consequences of use – Wiley Online Library, Dec. 2019
p4-5 –
- A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley – New York Times, Oct. 2018
p6-7 –
- Ignoring People for Phones Is the New Normal – The Atlantic, June 2016
- Smartphones revolutionize our lives—but at what cost? – National Geographic, 2019
p12-13 –
- IPhones won’t come with headphones or power adapters in the box from now on – TechCrunch, Oct. 2020
p16-17 –
- Distracted Driving – National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
- USDOT Releases New Data Showing That Road Fatalities Spiked in First Half of 2021 – National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Oct. 2021
- Continuation of Research on Traffic Safety During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency [PDF] – National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Oct. 2021
p18-19 –
- How many cars are there in the US? – Hedges & Company
- Mobile Fact Sheet – Pew Research Center
- Consumers now average 4.2 hours per day in apps, up 30% from 2019 – TechCrunch, April 2021
- We’ve Spent 1.6 Trillion Hours On Mobile So Far In 2020 – Forbes, Aug. 2020
p20-21 –
- List of most popular smartphone apps – Wikipedia
- Apple/iOS Most download apps – Wikipedia
- Google/Andriod Most downloaded apps – Wikipedia
- The mobile phone is ruining everyone. Who agrees? – Reddit r/productivity, Oct. 2021
p22-23 –
- How technology is designed to bring out the worst in us – Vox, Feb. 2018
- The Effects of Smartphone Usage on the Brain – UNC Health, Sept. 2020
- Impact of Smartphones on Quality of Life: A Health Information Behavior Perspective – SpringerLink, June 2019
- Is our constant use of digital technologies affecting our brain health? We asked 11 experts. – Vox, 2019
- Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? – The Atlantic, Sept. 2017
- Reliance on smartphones linked to lazy thinking – ScienceDaily, 2015
- Face-to-Face Social Contact Reduces Risk of Depression – Psychology Today, 2015
- How Smartphones Are Killing Conversation – Berkeley Greater Good Magazine, Dec. 2015
- The Strange Tale of the Freedom Phone, a Smartphone for Conservatives – New York Times, Sep. 2021
p24-25 –
- Mobile vs. Desktop Internet Usage (Latest 2021 Data) – BroadbandSearch, Feb. 2021
- Computer vs. smartphone – Computer Hope, Aug. 2020
- Mobile vs. Desktop: 10 Key Differences – Paradox Labs, Nov. 2017
p26-27 –
This is an embarrassingly light and non-exhaustive set of links regarding privacy, but the point has long ago been proven on this front, not to mention being pretty obvious with any thought on the subject at all.
- Ask Help Desk: No, your phone isn’t listening to your conversations. Seriously. – Washington Post, Nov. 2021
- The hidden trackers in your phone, explained – Vox, July 2020
- iPhone Apps Can Tell Many Things About You Through the Accelerometer – Mysk, Oct. 2021
- Almost 17,000 Protesters Had No Idea A Tech Company Was Tracing Their Location – BuzzFeed News, June 2020
- Federal Agencies Use Cellphone Location Data for Immigration Enforcement – Wall Street Journal, Feb 2020
- Smartphones Are Spies. Here’s Whom They Report To. – New York Times, Dec 2019
p28-29 –
- Image search for ‘smartphones in landfills’ – DuckDuckGo
- Recycling Your Old Cell Phone: Here’s What Happens – Global Citizen, June 2018
- Redefining scope: the true environmental impact of smartphones? – SpringerLink, June 2015
- Could the most massive internet crash ever be brought on by a solar storm? – SyFy, Sept. 2021
- Impacts of Strong Solar Flares – NASA, May 2013
- Space junk traffic dangers to be tackled by first-of-its-kind research center – Phys.org, Sept. 2021
- Space Debris and Human Spacecraft – NASA, May 2021
- We are spending more on smartphone apps than ever before. Apple is still the big winner – ZDNet, April 2021
- US iPhone users spent an average of $138 on apps in 2020, will grow to $180 in 2021 – TechCrunch, April 2021
- The True Cost of Upgrading Your Phone – New York Times, Oct 2021
- Thousands of phone boxes to be saved from closure – BBC News, Nov. 2021
p30-31 –
- Measuring Problematic Mobile Phone Use: Development and Preliminary Psychometric Properties of the PUMP Scale – NCBI, 2013
- Problematic smartphone use – Wikipedia
- Americans spend far more time on their smartphones than they think – ZDNet, April 2019
p32-33 –
- The Beatles’ Fixing a Hole lyrics – Genius.com
p34-35 –
- Smartphone zombie – Wikipedia
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