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I think the Amish have the right idea. They examine each thing to determine whether their lives (and their family lives) are improved by each piece of technology.
Most people think they just eschew everything new, but they don’t. They use engines and other useful technologies on their farms, etc.
They use the useful, and reject that which they perceive as harmful. They do use phones, though phones were put at the corners where four farms met, so they wouldn’t interfere with family life.
Now they have a problem, since one can have a cellphone in secret. In the old days (more than a decade ago) you’d have those pesky telltale wires coming to your house.
bests,
-rsr-