Dear Technophobes
While attempting to read up on Google's Nexus One, I unearthed a ton of smartphone hate comments stuck into just about every article on the subject.
It's okay if smartphones aren't your thing, but do you really have to turn a discussion forum into a warzone?
Flashy new technologies don't interest you? That's fine. There's no reason to berate the rest of us.
I met so many people in college who were constantly asserting that "too many people walk around on their cellphones all day, never making eye contact".
I assure you, even if I didn't have an iPhone to distract me, I wouldn't have made eye contact with you anyway. I was introverted long before I had a cellphone.
In fact, I keep in contact with a larger amount of people thanks to cellphones and computers.
Plus, I've been lost in cities, or harassed by creepy drunk men in the street, and being able to find the nearest subway station or bus stop or even crowded plaza on my phone in those situations can't possibly have been a bad thing.
I am just so very sick of all this self-righteous "we don't need technology! let's return to nature" bullshit.
Without modern medical equipment, many women would die in childbirth. Without computer databases and radios, police would be able to prevent and/or solve only a handful of crimes.
If technology as commodity fetishism is the price we have to pay for a better, safer world, I personally think it's one worth paying.
It's okay if smartphones aren't your thing, but do you really have to turn a discussion forum into a warzone?
Flashy new technologies don't interest you? That's fine. There's no reason to berate the rest of us.
I met so many people in college who were constantly asserting that "too many people walk around on their cellphones all day, never making eye contact".
I assure you, even if I didn't have an iPhone to distract me, I wouldn't have made eye contact with you anyway. I was introverted long before I had a cellphone.
In fact, I keep in contact with a larger amount of people thanks to cellphones and computers.
Plus, I've been lost in cities, or harassed by creepy drunk men in the street, and being able to find the nearest subway station or bus stop or even crowded plaza on my phone in those situations can't possibly have been a bad thing.
I am just so very sick of all this self-righteous "we don't need technology! let's return to nature" bullshit.
Without modern medical equipment, many women would die in childbirth. Without computer databases and radios, police would be able to prevent and/or solve only a handful of crimes.
If technology as commodity fetishism is the price we have to pay for a better, safer world, I personally think it's one worth paying.