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Remember daydreaming? Your smartphone doesn't want you to

Ellsworth Toohey
May 05, 2025
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Remember that delicious feeling of letting your mind float away like a lazy cloud on a summer afternoon? No? That's because your phone has murdered your capacity for wanderlust and buried it in a shallow grave marked "increased engagement metrics."

Christine Rosen's essay in After Babel on the death of daydreaming examines wh…

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