Disconnect. Offline only
The funny thing is, smartphones are all but useless for many tasks the minute you go into airplane mode. There are exceptions, but you&#x27;re basically holding a client to a distributed operating system which has appropriated many of the promises of wearable personal computing for corporate profit.<p>So yes, if you&#x27;ve already ceded your right to not be inturupted by running apps like Twitter and Facebook in the background, then I can see the appeal of cord cutting.<p>Of course there also exists the possibility of at least trying to use these devices without ceding this autonomy in the first place, but that requires admitting just how little today&#x27;s social media offerings will have to do with this approach.<p>And no, a smartphone is not the right place to do research anyway. In fact, neither is the WWW using off-the-shelf browsers, but it&#x27;s the version of Hypertext we&#x27;re stuck with for now.