“Who today memorizes a phone number
reads a map, or calculates a tip in their head?
I have lost those skills
because my smart phone has made me a moron
and I now depend on my brain extension device
for just about everything.”
—Lynn Levin, poet, from “The Song of My Cell Phone,” The Minor Virtues, 2020. Image: Babycakes Romero, 2015.
• Editorial Comment: . . . Dumb humans.
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