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Digital Minimalism (Part 1) - Cut the Clutter

(Source - wbur.org) In today's hyper-connected modern world we constantly get bombarded with a lot of information. This constant flow of news, gossip, and media in the "Age of Information" is the reason this time is tagged as 'the most distracted time in human history'. Researches have shown a lot of negative effects of constantly sticking to our screens, like reduction in focus, constant anxiety also lesser and lesser social interactions. This is a really alarming situation for us. We are ceding 'Autonomy' to the screen which we carry everywhere with us. Why is this happening? An engineer from Google has given us the answer. Tristan Harris, a whistleblower from Google, in his interview with Anderson Cooper , said, "This is a slot machine" holding up his smartphone.  He explained that the giant tech companies are doing the same thing what a 'Slot Machine' does at any Casino. Every time we check our mobile 'unintentionally&
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