What’s smart and dumb about smartphones?

A technological marvel that spans centuries of discovery and invention but which fuels narcissistic indulgence rather than a source of inspiration to invent the future

"Bernard of Chartres used to say that we are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size."
(12th-century philosopher and theologian John of Sal…