2026-05-29
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For Scientific American Science Quickly, I'm Rachel Feltman.
If you're listening to this, you probably have a phone somewhere nearby.
Think about that device for a second and ask yourself a question.
Does it expand your horizons or does it contract them?
For me, the answer is probably like a little bit of the former
that I use to justify way too much of the latter.
Fretting over the relationship you have with your phone is pretty common these days.
But our little pocket computers are merely the brightest
stars in the constellation of technological innovations that surround us.
After all, humanity has been shaped by our relationship
to tools since our ancestors first started breaking stuff open with rocks.
Vanessa Cheng is the director of programs at Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology.