The phone of the future … from the past!

In terms of innovation race Technological – marked lately by the spectacular advances of artificial intelligence – a new phone is talked about. It is a smartphone whose particularity is due to the fact that it is limited to being able to make telephone calls and send messages! Presented as a revolutionary, this tool is none other than a mobile phone as known by the users of the 2000s, with the only real innovation a touch keyboard rather than in keys. The “invention” can lend to smile at the same time as arouse a certain disbelief. Wouldn’t that be a new fashion phenomenon? To satisfy the demand for digital detox – in particular that of parents in the face of addictions and dangers to which are exposed the youngest via the screens – one is not afraid to present as a novelty which, from the point of view of technological advances, is only a retropedage.

Beyond the marketing operation, It is also possible to discern in the phenomenon an authentic awareness of the dangers of the smartphone. Little by little, she wins the different layers of the company and does not only mobilize a handful of marginals advocating total disconnection. That market players seize the question is in itself rather good news, likely to return to the greatest number the image of a technology whose repercussions are not blissful.

The question of innovation is nevertheless in depth: Are we ready to get out of the race always better to “involve” to less efficient digital tools? This turn can only be done if we put our inventiveness at the service of other dimensions of our lives than that of technology. Starting with the human relationship, which it would be desirable to pose as ultimate value at the service of which any digital innovation would be ordered.