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Technology is a Net Good
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The Bad
During the pandemic I kept my phone in airplane mode, for no particular reason other than I was mostly in a place where there was wifi, and my phone worked with wifi calling as many modern cell providers operate. Why? Two reasons: cell signal is one of the largest battery drains in a cell phone, and my data plan was on a per GB basis. Not long before I had read an article about not owning a cell phone by Steve Hilton who was a former advisor to the British prime minister. After the pandemic I slowly transitioned back to enabling cellular, but in the last couple of years I’ve been mostly in airplane mode again, for different reasons.
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