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One of the ironies of modern life is that everyone is glued to their phones, but nobody uses them as
phones anymore. Phone calls are becoming relics of a bygone era, the “phone” part of a smartphone
turning vestigial as communication 11 , willingly or not, into data-oriented formats like text
messaging and chat apps.
The distaste for telephony is especially acute among Millennials, 12 have come of age in a
world of AIM and texting, then gchat and iMessage, but it’s hardly limited to young people. When asked,
people with a distaste for phone calls argue that they are 13 , especially given alternative methods of
contact that don’t make unbidden demands for someone’s undivided attention. In response, some have
been diagnosed with a kind of telephoniphobia among this set. When even initiating phone calls is a
problem—and even 14 ones, like phoning the local Thai place to order takeout—then anxiety rather
than habit may be to blame.
But when it 15 taking phone calls, nobody seems to have admitted that using the telephone
today is a different material experience than it was 20 or 30 years ago. The telephone used to be truly
great, partly because of the situation of its use, and partly because of the nature of the apparatus we used
to refer to as the “telephone”—especially the handset.
Dr. Alter and his team analysed 47 studies that tracked different groups of people, _____ kept notes on how long they sat down each day and how much they exercised.
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