Richard Hogan: I thought I was behind drunk driver — she was scrolling her phone behind the wheel

 The driver in front of me was bouncing all over the road, in and out of the white line, it looked like the driver was either drunk or having a medical emergency. When I drove passed, it was a girl in her early twenties scrolling through videos.
Richard Hogan: I thought I was behind drunk driver — she was scrolling her phone behind the wheel

Richard Hogan. Photograph Moya Nolan

We are living in the age of distracted humans. Look around you; everywhere heads down scrolling, meals out phones out, commuting heads consuming videos, teenagers sitting on walls with the light of their screen illuminating their faces.

Phones pinging in cinemas and students in school asking to go to the toilet with their phones in their pockets. Without wanting to sound hyperbolic, It can seem like a zombie apocalypse.

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