Is technology a raging or a tamed beast? I thought of this illustration from idea of breaking a horse. You think of a tamed stallion that someone has broken—they’ve broken his will, not his spirit. The stallion that has been broken is very valuable. He can be used to sire more horses, he can be used to round up horses, he can be used to race. But if you don’t tame that stallion, if you don’t have any control over him and he has all the control over you, he isn’t valuable in the same way. You try to put a bit in his mouth and he runs, or he does anything to get away from you. He has control over you, you don’t have control over him.
I use this as an illustration to say if we’re not careful, that’s what our technology—our smartphones—can do to us. You’ll see that as we get into our discussion today. Due to society’s interest and advancements in knowledge and application, the internet and electronic media has given us both usefulness and slavery.
When I first started working on this, the question I was posing and
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