When Smartphones Make Us Dumb
In a 2017 interview with The Guardian, software engineer Loren Brichter said “smartphones are useful tools, but they’re addictive. Pull-to-refresh is addictive. Twitter is addictive. These are not good things.” What makes this quote significant is the knowledge that it was none other than Brichter who invented pull-to-refresh, a feature now ubiquitous among smartphone apps. […]
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