Digital organ --- @Vladimir: I find the comparison of the cell phone with a digital organ very accurate! We are entering a digital era with huge potential and advantages, and many disadvantages.<br /> We are learning to adapt and live with this new reality. Every major invention had disruptive effects on the society and faced opposition. I recall an anecdote about a French nobleman in the 19th century who opposed the introduction of electric lighting in homes because it hampered reading....

If we tend to be addicted to our phones, it is because those electric devices fulfil essential needs (communication, socialising, memory etc.). We should discuss the limits we want to set to our "digital organ" and give ourselves some time off. The analog world still exists and we should enjoy it too!

Source author: Florence Tinguely Mattli florence.tinguely-mattli@eda.admin.ch