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Folks who answer the phones, assistants who manage calendars, representatives from agencies who weren't always trusted.
If our brains are just as subject to data tracking and aggregation as our financial records and transactions, if our brains can be hacked and tracked like our online activities, our mobile phones and applications, then we're on the brink of a dangerous threat to our collective humanity.
They walk through the same detector frames, they're sniffed by the same sniffer dogs, and all because some children have been the unwitting carriers of drugs and mobile phones.
They start putting their phones on airplane mode on the weekend.
And these are the kinds of questions we ask of our oracle now, like, "What's the most efficient way to ship these phones from China to Sweden?" Or, "What are the odds of my child being born with a genetic disorder?"
Or I did fieldwork, spending nights and days in internet cafés, hanging out with Chinese youth, so I could understand how they were using games and mobile phones and using it between moving from the rural areas to the cities.
If you're thinking it's ironic that I asked people to download another app so that they would spend less time on their phones: yeah, but you gotta meet people where they are.
So before challenge week, we were averaging two hours a day on our phones and 60 pickups, you know, like, a quick check, did I get a new email?
Their phones had been transformed from taskmasters back into tools.
Grindr has been around for a lot longer, since it was much harder to meet your future gay husband at church or the grocery store, or whatever straight people did before they found out they could date on their phones.
We're selling a billion cell phones worldwide this year.
Over 40 percent of Americans check their phones within five minutes of waking up every morning.
But when we fixate on our fears about it, we forget a really major point, and that is, that kids are living in the same world that we live in, the world where the grownups check their phones more than 50 times a day.
I was surrounded by a sea of 20-something professionals glued to their phones.
And we're seeing that already with, say, phones.
Right now, phones don't go through the Web, but they are beginning to, and they will.
Initially, we were just trying to get people out of their phones and back into the real world.
In Africa, the continent has leapfrogged phone lines to go to mobile phones, bypassed traditional banks to go straight to mobile payments.
No matter what happens, if you leave your cell phone by your bedside, you will not have a billion cell phones in the morning.
It powers not only light, but also laptops, phones, internet connection, a fan or a TV.
Aside from running out of space on our phones, we rarely think about our digital footprint.
It was easy: we immediately realized that mobile phones were becoming increasingly common in Africa and most of the regions could get access to one.
However, in the late '90s, I started noticing the role of technology in Nigeria: cable TV and cell phones in the village, 419 scammers occupying the cybercafes, the small generator connected to my cousin's desktop computer because the power was always going on and off.
With a network of phones around the globe, scientists could potentially crowdsource a rich, detailed warning system that alerts people to incoming quakes.
Unfortunately, phones might not be able to provide the advance notice needed to enact safety protocols.
And this is always the most asked question I get: "OK, great, but how many phones can I charge from this, then?"
So people from the street could come and charge their phones through the window ledges.
We live in a world increasingly tyrannized by the screen, by our phones, by our tablets, by our televisions and our computers.
Cell phones were adopted in about eight years.
And my question to everybody else is, is this what we want: to let them get away with it, and to sit back and play with our phones, as this darkness falls?
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