What Do I Want To Feel Instead?
Michael's six-minute 2017 video about putting the phone down and asking what you want to feel instead.
Michael Mackintosh · 2017
Michael's Videos About Phones, Attention And Offline Life
Michael made these videos between 2013 and 2019 while testing ways to use technology without carrying the internet into every hour. They are personal talks from the time they were made, not medical advice or a replacement for the current evidence pages on this site.
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How To Declutter Your iPhone
An eighteen-minute walkthrough of removing distractions and making the phone useful again.
Michael Mackintosh · 2019
My Evil Friend Who Lives In My Pocket
An early personal video about recognising a damaging relationship with the device you carry everywhere.
Michael Mackintosh · 2013
Solitude For Sanity
Why deliberate time alone can matter in a life that rarely stops sending information at you.
Michael Mackintosh · 2019
How To Take The Morning Off And Still Be Productive
A short field note about protecting the morning without abandoning the work that matters.
Michael Mackintosh · 2015
Facebook And Depression: A 2019 Personal Reflection
Michael's older account of how Facebook affected his mood. Personal experience, not a medical diagnosis or the site's current evidence review.
Michael Mackintosh · 2019
Two longer pieces already have their own pages: Days Of Freedom and Michael's 21-day digital detox diary.
Selected Films And Talks
These films and talks come from other filmmakers, researchers and speakers. They are here to help you examine the technology around you, not because Digital Detox endorses every claim they make.
Strange Beasts: A Short Film About Augmented Reality
An augmented reality game that lets you create and grow your own virtual pet. How far can it go?
Source: Magali Barbé
Wake Up Call
A fast-paced, animated glimpse of the true costs behind some of our most prized possessions — our electronic gadgets.
Source: The Gaia Foundation
In This Cold Place
Are you lost in the world like me? The video from Moby & Steve Cutts.
Source: Moby & The Void Pacific Choir
MAN
Source: Steve Cutts
Quit Social Media
Source: TEDx
How Social Media Makes Us Unsocial
Social media historian Allison Graham offers a witty and ironic view of a society that feels alone together, despite the hundreds of virtual connections we have online.
Source: Allison Graham · TEDx
What You Are Missing
Source: TEDx
Could You Live Without A Smartphone?
Source: Anastasia Dedyukhina · TEDx
How Smartphones Change Your Brain
Source: TEDx
Why We Should Rethink Our Smartphones
Lior Frenkel explains why being hooked to our smartphones is costing us more than we think.
Source: Lior Frenkel · TEDx
Technology Addiction & Our Children
Source: TEDx
Should You Be Worried About Your Cell Phone?
A short, evidence-led look at what we actually know about the device in your pocket.
Source: AsapSCIENCE
Gaming Rehab In South Korea
Source: SBS Dateline
First published 21 June 2018 · Video library updated 12 August 2026
Michael Mackintosh
Author · meditation teacher · founder of Digital Detox
Michael has spent much of his working life online—and much of the rest of it trying to stop that technology taking over. He has thrown a phone into a lake, locked devices in boxes and experimented with long periods offline. He writes about what helped, what failed and how to keep the useful parts of digital life.