Looking to get away from it all? Chances are, you can’t!

In just 20 short years, the tools we use to live our daily lives are completely screen-oriented. We can’t get away without leaving behind some responsibilities as colleagues, as clients, as friends, and as family.

Any of these sound familiar?

📱 I would love to get off social media – but that’s how I market my business.
📱 I would love to detox on my commute – but that’s the only time I get to listen to my favourite podcasts.
📱 I would love to put my phone away – but my parents want to video chat with my daughter.

Full disclosure: these are all excuses I’ve made!

As society’s primary use of communication now, it’s hard to exist as a human without it According to Seattle-based consultant Emily Cherkin: “Technology is very much a part of us now. We bank with an app, read restaurant menus on phones and even sweat with exercise instructors through a screen. It’s so embedded in our lives, we’re setting ourselves up for failure if we say we’re going to go phone-free for a week.”

While you can make personal changes like putting on timers, deleting distracting apps, and inputting tracking, none of it is going to change because our life infrastructure is depend on apps.

Until technology takes a step away from the phone and start looking beyond screen-based interfaces, we’re all going to be stuck to our devices. Golden Krishna‘s “The Best Interface is No Interface” is a great read on re-evaluating how we can become a more technologically advanced society without being screen-dependent.

It’s only been 20 years and we’ve come this far for screens. It just proves how quickly we can develop new ways to communicate.