Both Bored and Boring

Technology has given us more free time and choice than at any point in history, but we don’t seem to know what to do with it.

7 min readJan 24

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The writer Michael Easter is under the impression that boredom went the way of the dodo with the advent of the smartphone. “Finally, on June 29, 2007, boredom was pronounced dead, thanks to the iPhone,” Easter writes in…

Craig Axford

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M.A. in Environment and Management and undergraduate degrees in Anthropology & Environmental Studies. Living in Moab, Utah. A generalist, not a specialist.

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