Why the Smartphone is The Adult Pacifier

Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley
2 min readMay 2, 2024

The smartphone was first created in 1992 and has gone worldwide due to the invention of the iPhone, which was first launched by Apple in 2007 under the leadership of the visionary Steve Jobs.

Now, 85% of people worldwide possess a smartphone, a total of 6.94 billion.

This innovation has led to the smartphone’s greatest triumph, becoming its greatest tragedy for humanity.

We have the sole sum and potential access to human knowledge in the smartphone.

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Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley

I have been writing from 2014 to the present day; my writing is focused on history, politics, culture, geopolitics and other related topics.