The current restrictions on the internet in Iran are coinciding with Nowruz, the observance of the Persian New Year.

If decreasing dependence on our phones feels impossible, we might benefit from considering what we’d want to fill the space that they occupy.

The ban is to take effect March 28, according to a government minister, but details about how it would be carried out were scarce.

Chinese policymakers and the public have expressed high levels of optimism about A.I., even as many in the West worry about the technology’s effects on employment or humanity in general.