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Having slow phones may come to be seen as a form of disability
Mandatory Updates Having slow phones may come to be seen as a form of disability Olivia Rosane July 17, 2017 share Image: From Close Readings Christine Sun Kim. Close captioned by Lauren Ridloff. Courtesy the artist. I did not own a smart phone until last year. Before then, I’d made do with the same 2008 flip phone. At first, refusing to upgrade seemed practical. I didn’t have the kind of job that required 24/7 email access, so why pay more for it? But the longer I held out, the more I sensed that I was holding myself back. Experiences and abilities now common for my friends — navigating on th
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