We have a cell phone on our house but only so that we can communicate with text addicted friends, and it's so dilapidated that it only works if it's plugged into the wall :-) Can't claim any superiority though because where I got hooked by technology is with the internet. Personally I blame Ran - if his blog hadn't of been so good...
Nah, the truth is that computers in general have taken over so much of what I do; communicating with friends, philosophical discussions, writing and publishing, any research, film editing, radio broadcasting, architectural design and drawing, keeping track of sports results, watching TV. I spend way too much time sitting here.
One of the internet's tricks is that is enables people with common interests to gather and develop those interests - which is precisley what I did with the anti-civ/primitivist/whatever circle of blogs. Now, I have a strong and well developed interest that no one in my real world can relate to. How good is that really? (and am I reinforcing it by writing this? Don't ask.)
Don't you think that there's more to this than addiction too? Grabbing the machine with all the buttons appears to have a serious Pavlovian quality to it. Then there's the issues that the technology is an aid for avoiding tricky social interaction. Breaking off relationships by text is the start but it seems like a slippery slope, the more you mediate your life through technology the more likely you are to find ALL social interaction tricky. Heaven knows what this stuff would have done to me as a shy teenager.
Sorry, this is long but my last thought is about what this does to our reflection time. It can't be good for us as individials but also, how easy is it to control a society of people who never just stop and think for a while?
It's the fact that this problem is reinforced at so many levels that make me think it's going to be hard to beat. Maybe I should start a Facebook campaign.
Oh dear, if you're wondering why I put my name where the subject title is, it's because I can't understand the all Russian instructions that I get with this blog.
Nah, the truth is that computers in general have taken over so much of what I do; communicating with friends, philosophical discussions, writing and publishing, any research, film editing, radio broadcasting, architectural design and drawing, keeping track of sports results, watching TV. I spend way too much time sitting here.
One of the internet's tricks is that is enables people with common interests to gather and develop those interests - which is precisley what I did with the anti-civ/primitivist/whatever circle of blogs. Now, I have a strong and well developed interest that no one in my real world can relate to. How good is that really? (and am I reinforcing it by writing this? Don't ask.)
Don't you think that there's more to this than addiction too? Grabbing the machine with all the buttons appears to have a serious Pavlovian quality to it. Then there's the issues that the technology is an aid for avoiding tricky social interaction. Breaking off relationships by text is the start but it seems like a slippery slope, the more you mediate your life through technology the more likely you are to find ALL social interaction tricky. Heaven knows what this stuff would have done to me as a shy teenager.
Sorry, this is long but my last thought is about what this does to our reflection time. It can't be good for us as individials but also, how easy is it to control a society of people who never just stop and think for a while?
It's the fact that this problem is reinforced at so many levels that make me think it's going to be hard to beat. Maybe I should start a Facebook campaign.
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