Is having a landline the ultimate post-digital flex?

Driven by digital burnout and some good old nostalgia, some young people are plugging back into corded phones with the hope of reviving the art of uninterrupted conversation

Is having a landline the ultimate post-digital flex?
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When I first called Caitlin Begg, the 31-year-old founder of Authentic Social, an applied research lab focused on sociology and technology, it went through to voicemail. “You’ve reached the landline of Caitlin Begg,” the message said. I tried again, and she picked up. “I got my landline in January 2023 because I wanted an alternative to smartphones,” she says. “I wanted to be reachable by people without having to go on myhellip;

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