The difference between smartphones and cigarettes is this: a cigarette robs 10 minutes from your lifespan, but at least has the decency to wait and withdraw all that time in bulk as you near the end of your life - whereas a smartphone steals your time in the present moment, by degrees. Five minutes here. Five minutes there. Then you look up and you're 85 years old.
Charlie BrookerMy theory is that we used to have several personalities, and now we're encouraged to have one online.
Charlie BrookerI saw The Twilight Zone for the first time when I was 12 or 13. I used to stay up late to watch.
Charlie BrookerI'm quite geeky and I'm very much into video games and technology and stuff like that.
Charlie Brooker