You might not notice it in your peer group, when you are not their age, but my daughter showed me that many 20-30yr olds are switching to dumb phones, are cancelling their Facebook/tiktok/twitter accounts and are discovering libraries and printed books. As a conscious decision. Not all of them, but quite a lot and it's growing.

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They are not anti-technology. They have gaming PCs and quite some of them are picking up software development, 3D printing etc. But they have recognised how mobile devices are sucking up their time, energy and attention span. They also have lost trust in social media and are aware that every move is being analysed. In a world that needs us all to move around with open eyes and ears because we have real world problems to solve. I am learning from them, not the other way round. Good!

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It's not a coordinated movement. It's leaderless (for now, and I hope it stays that way) and very diverse. More a set of shared principles and desires that is continuously evolving in many directions. Mistakes are made. Discussed. Typically in person (and sober, alcohol consumption is not "cool" anymore ;) Oh, and saying "I asked ChatGPT" will not go over well :)

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@jwildeboer Your post got me checking the apps on my phone. I could probably do without most of them, doing the stuff they help with from a PC (banking, purchases, news, entertainment). But transport would be a problem. Bus and train tickets, as well as charging my car, would often be much more troublesome, sometimes impossible, without apps on my mobile device. Navigation is also very helpful and often used. Is it only the SoMe and media apps («content») they are ditching?
@Erik_Haugaard @jwildeboer most of Europe has at least contactless payments or rfid roaming for public EV charging, Norway might be an outlier there if the charging networks can still insist on proprietary mobile phone apps.
@zymurgic @Erik_Haugaard @jwildeboer
It's much the same in Sweden.
You can buy physical period tickets for say a month at the time for public transport in Gothenburg. But I really don't know if you could buy a one way ticket for cash (or with a bank card); I certainly wouldn't count on it.
Besides, many smaller businesses here do not accept cash at all any longer, and some only accept payment by phone!
Swedish urban life really presupposes that people come with a smartphone.