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A friend of mine once told me, “I always keep my phone on silent mode… which doesn’t matter because I compulsively look at it every three minutes anyway.”
He’s not the only one. From becoming a text addict to having full-blown smartphone dependency, the urge to look at and interact with our “flat things” has been deeply ingrained into our collective behavior for some time now.

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