How much smarter are you than your smartphone, really?

Okay, before you start to think about everything smartphones have done for your life and selfie game, just pause.

Start by thinking about what your life was like before you had a smartphone. How did you communicate? How did you read the news? How did you take photos? How did you learn? How did you see the world? What did you think was an attainable goal in life?

I know, so many questions.

But that’s what you have to think about. Today, smartphones are a part of our bodies. A limb.

I mean, check out this dude. He went out and shopped for a new addition to his body, so he could shove his face into his phone for longer periods of time without having to lift his hands. 100 percent genuine leather by the way.

I used to get anxious when my phone died. My mind would start to race. I would start to smell weird things like flowers and car fumes. My ears would tremble, vibrations piercing my head with sounds of life, like the leaves dancing on the tree or the horn of a car that just can’t seem to disappear for more than ten seconds. I would rush, looking for those two magical holes in the wall where I could plug my phone probe and get charged again. Looking back and forth, counting the seconds turn into minutes until, finally.

It’s almost like, when we reach into our pockets or purse, and pull out the phones, we become disconnected, not connected. It’s crazy to look at it this way, and it’s even crazier coming from a guy who’s the founder of an iOS startup. But today, that’s the way the cookie crumbles. It’s our lives, and we have to be selective about what we do with these “smartphones”. Not just as users, but as founders, engineers and the whole community contributing to its core.

Let’s get to the point.

Information is accessible. I have no doubt about that, and you shouldn’t either. Our globalized economy has made great leaps in sharing information to the far corners of the earth. The internet has been the transport truck on eighteen wheels delivering this superabundance of information to anyone who can access the internet.

But, with gold comes bloodshed.

This “bloodshed” that I am referring to is the devil on earth, misinformation. Misinformation has shaken economies and made us look like complete idiots when we reference an article that we read on our phones stating that eating apple cores are good for you. When in fact, the seeds actually contain cyanide, and if you eat like 200 seeds or whatever, you die. Regardless, this distribution of misinformation happens. It’s happened to me, and it doesn’t feel good.

But it doesn’t stop there.

Don’t believe me? Take a look for yourself.