12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You

Do You Control Your Phone—Or Does Your Phone Control You?

Within a few years of its unveiling, the smartphone had become part of us, fully integrated into the daily patterns of our lives. Never offline, always within reach, we now wield in our hands a magic wand of technological power we have only begun to grasp. But it raises new enigmas, too. Never more connected, we seem to be growing more distant. Never more efficient, we have never been more distracted.

Drawing from the insights of numerous thinkers, published studies, and his own research, writer Tony Reinke identifies twelve potent ways our smartphones have changed us—for good and bad. Reinke calls us to cultivate wise thinking and healthy habits in the digital age, encouraging us to maximize the many blessings, avoid the various pitfalls, and wisely wield the most powerful gadget of human connection ever unleashed.

• Table of Contents
• Foreword by John Piper
• Preface
• Introduction: A Little Theology of Technology
• We Are Addicted to Distraction
• We Ignore Our Flesh and Blood
• We Crave Immediate Approval
• We Lose Our Literacy
• We Feed on the Produced
• We Become Like What We "Like"
• We Get Lonely
• We Get Comfortable in Secret Vices
• We Lose Meaning
• We Fear Missing Out
• We Become Harsh to One Another
• We Lose Our Place in Time
• Conclusion: Living Smartphone Smart
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgements
• General Index
• Scripture Index