The smartphone is the most amazing piece of hardware proving how much the human world is one and only. I mean,
Lithium for batteries probably comes from Australia or Chile. Cobalt for batteries as well, probably from Congo.
LCD screens from Japan and Korea. Hardware engineering from China. Software Quality Assurance from India.
Some WiFi patents and chip from Finland. An obscure file converter necessary for your device and part of FOSS coming from Germany, Russia and Italy.
The camera needs lenses from Switzerland and plastic molding from Taiwan.
Design from the US west coast and marketing from the east.
And yet, those smartphones make us believe and emphasize that it’s us against everything and everyone.
The very thing made with the help of the entire planet, women men and children, all countries and communities, all minerals and clever processes combined, is polarizing us to extremes for the profit of a few individuals, through algorithmic addiction.
I suggest we use phones less rather than doing “strikes” on apps. John Lewis’ good trouble, get back on the open web you cowards, etc.