Life after smartphones

From The New York Times (all gift links): “Why Some Young People Are Ditching Their Smartphones.” And: a photo essay about how six adults who grew up with smartphones now live without them. Notice that every array of stuff includes a notebook or a paper planner.

See also the paper’s 2022 coverage of high-schoolers who created a Luddite Club. And a 2025 follow-up.

[Did you notice that by typing paper’s I dodged the question of how to make Times possessive? But I did look into it.]