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A Week Without Screens
Field notes from seven days spent trying to remember what hands are for.
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Day one. The hand reaches for the phone that is not there roughly every ninety seconds, a phantom limb with a search history. I have started a tally on paper. By noon the tally is the most-used app I have ever owned.
It is the kind of subject The Lantern was made for: small enough to overlook, large enough to organise a life around once you start to notice it. We sent a writer to notice it properly.
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