GP said “can no longer exist”.

Listing a few challenges of a phoneless life doesn’t negate the point that one can still exist without a phone, even in 2026.

Because these two examples are tiny in comparison with the decrease in surveillance you will get, and the example you set for your fellow men, and just spreading the norm in society that ubiquitous surveillance is wrong and that we can live ethical lives without being slaves and chained to the government and corporations.

Undoubtedly having a phone would increase convenience in my life. I’d also have to go to work more to pay for it which would seriously inconvenience my snowboarding time.

I’d also spend more of my life staring at a small device instead of talking to people or just enjoying the trees, mountains and rivers.

On the whole, I much prefer it this way.