12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You
Do You Control Your Phone—Or Does Your Phone Control You? Producers: Josh Dennis, Jon Marshall Director: Jon Marshall DP: Tim Kellner Editor, Sound: Adam Billingham Compositing, FX: Micah Lanier Lighting: Helmut Luchs Production Coordinator: Claire Cook PA: Jonah Parker Shot the Red Raven in Wheaton, IL Music: Lost & Found, Courtesy of KillerTracks Actors: Jordan Singer, Clair Kassenbaum, Micah Lanier, Kevin Lipp, Jennie Sophia, Mabel H, Dan Bush Special Thanks: Fire + Wine, Amor in Motion, Gary Methodist Church, Jessica and Dan Bush About the Book: Within a few years of its unveiling, the smartphone had become part of us, fully integrated into the daily patterns of our lives. Never offline, always within reach, we now wield in our hands a magic wand of technological power we have only begun to grasp. But it raises new enigmas, too. Never more connected, we seem to be growing more distant. Never more efficient, we have never been more distracted. Drawing from the insights of numerous thinkers, published studies, and his own research, writer Tony Reinke identifies twelve potent ways our smartphones have changed us—for good and bad. Reinke calls us to cultivate wise thinking and healthy habits in the digital age, encouraging us to maximize the many blessings, avoid the various pitfalls, and wisely wield the most powerful gadget of human connection ever unleashed. Learn more: crossway.org/12Ways
