Here's What Our Smartphone Obsession Looks Like ... In 26 Photos

One in five owns a smartphone. This is over 1 billion people. Our equipment has become our own extension; they are some of the most memorable, meaningful and intimate people in our lives. We took them to the toilet. We bring them close to us as we sleep. We invited them to dinner. When we met the Pope, we clung to them

The universality of technology seems initially harmless. Walk with the dog for 5 minutes on the nature trail and it will be a 5 minute window to see the mail. Scrolling through a few instagrams and Spike doing him does not seem harmful, but we missed out of screen moments that make the screen better and less stressful. Sleeping on your phone is just a bad idea.

We are increasingly fascinated. In the past five years, the use of smartphones is rapidly increasing. Dependence on these devices is also evolving. According to data released by the Pew Research Center in the 2012 report, 29% of US mobile phone users say that their mobile phones "what they could not imagine in their lives".

From ordinary moments to the main things, the way we experience all aspects of life has changed. The relationship with mobile phones is a complicated problem. They can be seen everywhere, but they often lead us to solitude or loneliness. They record every moment in our life, but they lower us from our lives. We have not learned the perfect balance of mobile phones as accessories and mobile phones as a source of life. The next series of pictures shows the juxtaposition of life before a cell phone becomes a continuation of our social identity and a meaningless existence.

Marking 7 million photos with our label # EEEEEEATS or holding a festival in a restaurant for 4 years, it's a place where people all over the world pursue food enthusiasm beyond the screen of the smartphone looking for. I hope that EEEEEATSCON will be the place to pursue. I also want to put food in huge storage. And people. Here are your expectations for EEEEEATSCON: some nice restaurants from Los Angeles and other places, some of our favorite musicians, many ridiculous places for taking your # EEEEEEATS, and food One day panel from the industry and keynote lecture that we think that is impressed

Today's smartphone is everywhere. People continue to watch their mobile phones, text messages, take pictures, read e-mails, Twitter and more. Clearly, as a society, we began to get absorbed in that little screen. eMarketer says ordinary people are watching their smartphone 150 times a day. The term of this movement in the workplace is "cyber slacking". By definition, the interception of Cyber ​​is as follows. "Search the internet by searching entertainment that is not dependent on games or work to avoid work and other responsibilities." The company's annual cost loss exceeds 1 billion dollars! In addition, there is another huge potential cost in the form of a security hole.