{"id":216024,"date":"2024-03-22T12:26:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T12:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/22\/unlocked-review-why-we-dont-need-to-panic-about-our-phones\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:20:08","slug":"unlocked-review-why-we-dont-need-to-panic-about-our-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/22\/unlocked-review-why-we-dont-need-to-panic-about-our-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlocked review: Why we don&#8217;t need to panic about our phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/18140619\/SEI_195874777.jpg?width=1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/18140619\/SEI_195874777.jpg?width=100 100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/18140619\/SEI_195874777.jpg?width=200 200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/18140619\/SEI_195874777.jpg?width=249 249w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/18140619\/SEI_195874777.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/18140619\/SEI_195874777.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/18140619\/SEI_195874777.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/18140619\/SEI_195874777.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/18140619\/SEI_195874777.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/18140619\/SEI_195874777.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/18140619\/SEI_195874777.jpg?width=900 900w\" class=\"image size-full wp-image-2422811 ReplaceImageLazyload\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1130px) 900px, (min-width: 1025px) 900, (min-width: 768px) calc(100vw - 30px), calc(100vw - 30px)\" alt=\"Mandatory Credit: Photo by Hollandse Hoogte\/Shutterstock (14291785a) GELDERMALSEN - A student puts his cell phone in a phone pocket at ORS Lek and Linge secondary school. Since January 1, 2024, there has been a national ban on the use of mobile phones in the classroom. High School Phone Ban, Geldermalsen, Netherlands - 09 Jan 2024\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" data-credit=\"Hollandse Hoogte\/Shutterstock\" data-caption=\"In the Netherlands, schoolchildren must leave their smartphones outside the classroom\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">In the Netherlands, schoolchildren must leave their smartphones outside the classroom<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Hollandse Hoogte\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.littlebrown.co.uk\/titles\/pete-etchells\/unlocked\/9780349432939\/\">Unlocked<\/a><\/strong><\/em><br \/><strong>Pete Etchells (Piatkus)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DURING the course of writing this review, I looked at four separate screens. There was my laptop, onto which I typed this text; there was my phone, pinging and buzzing with messages from friends and colleagues; my iPad, for hunting additional details; and, in the background, a TV passively showing programmes.<\/p>\n<p>So far, so normal in 2024. But what do all those screens and the time spent with them do to us? Plenty of books and\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26134830-600-unlocked-review-why-we-dont-need-to-panic-about-our-phones\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] In the Netherlands, schoolchildren must leave their smartphones outside the classroom Hollandse Hoogte\/Shutterstock UnlockedPete Etchells (Piatkus) DURING the course of writing this review, I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216024"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334997,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216024\/revisions\/334997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}