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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.

I just wanted to tell the time. Quickly, with no strings attached. Without having to hunt down my phone. Without being sucked into a rabbit hole of emails and social media. I didn’t want to monitor how many steps I had taken, my pulse, or the weather I could plainly see out of the window. I didn’t want vibrations, beeps, ringtones. It was 2017, two years…