Mobile Phones Are Destroying Communication

Practical when used sensibly, a social catastrophe when it becomes a mode of living.

I will skip the positive aspects of mobile phones, nearly all focused on safety and ease of use ultimately, and instead, characterise the mobile phone as an almost unmitigated social harm which is slowly irradiating the best of our culture until it becomes largely inaccessible. Not by prohibition or forbidding diktat however: the culture we have until r…