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This essay on the allure and challenges of switching to a dumbphone explores whether our smart devices have become essential appendages of our brains. It reminded me of a recent experience. I went to a concert alone in a dank venue that my mobile carrier’s signal does not penetrate. With no internet to browse and no friends to chat with between sets, I was left entirely to the empty boredom of my own mind. “I’m not addicted to my phone,” author Elana Klein writes. “I *am* my phone.”

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