"The [iPad] best browsing experience you've ever had...It's an incredible experience."
"They haven't used the [iPad]. We limit how much technology our kids use at home."
...it pushed me to consider what screens were doing to me and to my family and the people I loved, and to people at large.
We sleep roughly seven-and-a-half to eight hours a day...
We work eight-and-a-half to nine hours a day.
We engage in survival activities -- these are things like eating and bathing and looking after kids -- about three hours a day.
[White space is] ...where we zoom back and try to work out whether our lives have been meaningful.
And right now, [your humanity is] in a very small box.
The way I've been able to introduce them to him is with screens. I couldn't have done that 15 or 20 years ago in quite the same way.
One thing you can do is ask yourself: What goes on during that time? How enriching are the apps that we're using?
People say they feel pretty good about apps that focus on relaxation, exercise, weather, reading, education and health.
Peopole spend 27 minutes a day on non-enriching apps: dating, social networking, gaming, entertainment, news, web browsing.
But the way we consume media today is such that there are no stopping cues. The news feed just rolls on...
...because it means at the end of the day, everything stops, there's no way to work.
"This person's on vacation, so we've deleted your email. This person will never see the email you just sent."
I will never use my phone at the table.
But when you have a stopping cue that, every time dinner begins, my phone goes far away, you avoid temptation all together.
...life becomes more colorful, richer, more interesting -- you have better conversations.
They start putting their phones on airplane mode on the weekend.
Your life will be richer and more meaningful because you've left your phone in the car.
Screens are miraculous; I've already said that, and I feel that it's true.
One of the reasons we spend so much time on these apps that make us unhappy is they rob us of stopping cues.
