> That’s why Humane’s pitch rings true in a way — it’s easy to imagine just walking around existing rather than checking your phone every five minutes. It sounds wonderful! But simply throwing your phone into the sea isn’t a viable alternative for most of us, so how do we stay connected and sift through the noise without disconnecting entirely?

I believe I misread this article the first time through, because of the quote about wanting to zone out and play Wordle at the DMV. I thought she was arguing that we should just lean in to being addicted to screens. Now I think she's making a better argument, which is that the AI Pin is still a connection to the internet, it's just a worse UI for it than a screen is. So, you're not disconnecting from anything when you use the AI Pin, you're just not able to use that connection as easily as you can with a screen—so what's the point? When you need to disconnect, you should actually disconnect, and when you need to be a slob staring at a screen, be a slob staring at a screen.