Tech musing 2

I've come across multiple articles (one attached below) about how our phones are dominating our lives. Our smartphones do enable us to communicate with friends or family and stay organized, but now we are dependent and addicted to our phones. Not only are they making our conversations in person weak, but now they are sucking the creativity out of our lives. Since our phones supply an endless amount of entertainment we never get bored. People are dependent on their mindless relationships to their phone. Boredom is the seed that stimulates creativity. When the brain senses boredom there’s a sudden urge to daydream or engage in a creative activity. If we could take a break from our phones long enough to become bored our conversations would possibly not be so "pedestrian" and we could regain our creativity.  





http://www.wnyc.org/story/bored-brilliant-project-part-1/