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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Kelly Burke

Armed with a street directory, alarm clock and push-button phone, can this film-maker survive a 30-day digital detox?

Australian film-maker Alex Lykos uses an old-school phone in his documentary Disconnect Me
‘My wife is losing it, my dad is losing it. Everyone is losing it’: film-maker Alex Lykos on an old-school phone in Disconnect Me. Photograph: Alex Lykos/Disconnect Me

No technological invention has become omnipresent so fast, no gadget has revolutionised the way we interact socially and gather and share information so rapidly, as the smartphone.

In the last two decades most of us have come to the conclusion that our smartphones are an extension of our bodies. So what happens when that extra limb, with a direct feed to our brain, is ripped from us?

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