You Don't Need a Smartphone

Who are you without your smartphone? At this rate, you'll never find out. In just two decades, the smartphone has gone from fiction to luxury to necessity. August Lamm's new book, You Don't Need a Smartphone makes a radical and discomfiting claim: that we can still choose to live without it, and furthermore, that we may soon lose the right to choose.

Other books treat the symptoms of screen addiction with self-control and wellness hacks. They demonstrate how to live with the smartphone. This is the first book to demonstrate how to live without it. Part-manifesto, part-memoir, part-guidebook, You Don't Need a Smartphone provides everything you need to reclaim your life from the tyranny of screens.

Lamm will be in conversation with Clio's co-founder Timothy Don about choosing life without screens.

August Lamm is a writer, visual artist, and anti-tech activist. She is the author of one art book, Crosshatching in Pen & Ink, and a forthcoming novel.