End our marriage to cellphones

We have a bizarre relationship with cellphones, especially smartphones.

- KEVIN RITCHIE

As academic and columnist Jonathan Jansen has noted there's an overwhelming technical communion as passengers genuflect in front of their devices the moment an aircraft lands and the crew lets them take off airplane mode.

We are wedded to our smartphones for everything from social media to banking and getting from one end of town to another. We even use them to talk on (those of us who aren't Gen Z or millennials and terrified of actual human contact).