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What if it’s not all about ‘screens’?

William Davies · 13 Oct 2026

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  1. Our reading

    Blaming ‘screens’ for cultural decline wrongly treats every screen, from cinema to smartphone, as a single thing.

    Their wordsThe assumption that the screen (from cinema, via television, to smartphone) is a single thing is part of the problem here.

  2. Our reading

    Apple is a revolutionary company that, largely alone, made networked computing part of everyday life.

    Their wordsI sometimes wonder if we forget what a revolutionary company Apple is (I know people obsessed over this about 20 years ago, but far less so today). To state the obvious, all the pioneerings steps in the social domestication and popular cultural embedding of networked computing over the past thirty years (at least in the Global North) have been made largely thanks to one company.

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