another – if it’s not a work com- puter, then it’s a private phone, or scrolling endlessly through Netflix. And life just passes.” Whether I wanted to admit it or not, I had to agree with him. I finished my coffee, left the money on the bar, and headed out into the it was only when I was in roaming that I realised I missed receiving notifications every minute - and that this probably isn’t entirely normal svakog minuta i da to verovatno nije baš skroz normalno Tek u romingu sam shvatio da mi nedostaju notifikacije
the idea that we’ve all become addicted to technology, and that this impoverishes our lives - in terms of love, socially, and even in an economic sense.” This was the moment when it would have been good for me to extract my phone from my pocket and google “digital detox”, but I knew that wasn’t an option. So I took a sip of my coffee and listened to his story intent- ly. Fortunately for me, he was talkative when it came to this topic: “Perhaps if we realised how overcrowd- ed our heads are with all these networks on a daily ba- sis, we would know how to limit the amount of infor- mation we scroll through.” Truth be told, it was only when I was in roaming that I realised I missed receiv- ing notifications every minute - and that this proba- bly isn’t entirely normal. “Man,” continued the waiter in a dramatic tone. “Most people I know just switch from one screen to
cold New York wind. Researching the term digital detox later that evening, I realised that the initiative for offline living has extended far beyond this small, poetic, eco-friend- ly cafe. All around the world, young people who nomi- nally belong to the generation that grew up with the in- ternet and social networks are yearning for a life with more observations and fewer likes, for a more concen- trated existence, as they themselves say. A more lei- surely pace at which the latest scandalous gossip about celebrities, enticements from online shop newsletters and someone’s lunch on Instagram aren’t the main at- traction of the day. And no distractions. I would be lying if I said that afterwards I imme- diately turned off my mobile and that it changed my life. But I put it in silent mode and pushed it into the drawer of the bedside cabinet. Small steps...
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