How We’ve Become Slaves To Our Mobile Phones
8 May 2025 - 9 mins‘Zombie’ traffic lights are to be installed on Tara Street in Dublin City in a bid to get people who are distracted by looking at their mobile phones to pay attention to oncoming traffic.
Is this a good idea, or an indication that we’ve become too dependent on our devices?
Adrian Weckler, Tech Editor at the Irish & Sunday Independent and Aoife Barry, author of Social Capital, spoke to Matt on Wednesday’s The Last Word.
Hit the ‘Play’ button on this page to hear the conversation.
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