![]() ![]() ![]() However, unlike other people, phones don’t have a soul, and it’s very easy to extract even our most prized information from these devices, and all one would need is the pattern that opens the doors to the deepest secrets of our lives. We empty our hearts into these devices and hope that a pattern or a password will keep the gigabytes upon gigabytes of data that store every detail about our lives safe. This dependency on a device works as long as it’s functioning and hasn’t fallen into the wrong hands. People have stopped using every other instinct because phones have alarm clocks that awaken them in the morning, they prefer texting over talking to others, they go to sleep with their phones, and the first thing they look for upon waking up is this device of metal, plastic composites, and glass. This unhealthy obsession with one’s phone goes beyond just a hobby, however, and people have made these snug little devices their entire lives’ diaries. Looking at the people in Kim Tae-joon’s world of phone addicts, they might even have a carrot dangling by a stick in front of them that they keep chasing-only the carrot is their phone, and they’re chasing the social media clout it brings. “Unlocked” shows how people have modified their patterns of walking or even traveling in the subway, with everyone looking down at their phones, neck bent, and thumb continuously scrolling the glass screens. If humans could have an extra organ on their body, it’d probably be their mobile phones, given how deeply attached people have become to their devices these days. ![]()
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