“Before smartphones, people didn’t invest their in-between time into forging social bonds or doing self-improvement. They mostly suffered through constant, endless boredom. So let us not lament or malign the time we waste on smartphones, at least not so much. Now there is too much happening, but before, ugh, nothing ever happened.” https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/07/before-smartphones-boredom/674631/