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REAL LIFE. Real Life is the next internet! In the future, people will go outside and talk to one another, face to face! We will congregate in libraries and book
by Simulacra 11y ago
REAL LIFE. Real Life is the next internet! In the future, people will go outside and talk to one another, face to face! We will congregate in libraries and bookstores, and drink coffee that doesn't suck or cost over $2 a cup. The future is coming....
- tacone 11y agoActually people are already talking face-to-face. It's still a bit expensive at the moment though, as it requires smartphones with a decent front camera and fast connectivity, but early results are encouraging.
- Simulacra 11y agoTouché!
- branchless 11y agoless than $2 a cup <-- here is your internet weirdo :-)
- Simulacra 11y agoMeet me at the waffle house, I could buy three people a cup of coffee for two dollars :-S
- hodwik 11y agoI keep thinking this same thing myself, and have tried to work the IRL-angle, but when you're an adult no one really wants to meet you. Up until the early 00s, I used to hang out at a coffee/cigarette bar where I knew just about every single person who walked through the door, and people would sit there for hours and hours talking to strangers about very interesting stuff, while drinking insane amounts of coffee and chain smoking. If those sorts of places still exist, I have no idea where they are.
- eropple 11y agoI do this all the time where I live, in Somerville, MA. Somerville is where all the hippies went when the tech assholes pushed them out of Cambridge; they're being pushed out towards Medford now, but Somerville is still mostly human and hasn't turned into a bench of vendorware mannequins yet (though I see an unhealthy number of kids wearing startup T-shirts, le sigh).
- a3voices 11y agoWhere in Somerville (if you don't mind my asking)? I used to live there and never knew a place like that!
- eropple 11y agoPretty much anywhere around the Square, I think. Most of the coffee places, even just chilling out in Davis itself.
- a3voices 11y agoMaybe it's because I've always found it difficult to engage people I don't know well, for a variety of reasons. I'm still struggling to get past it. I'm no longer scared to, but still have other mental blocks preventing me. Despite lots of efforts to fix it. It's extremely annoying actually.
- Simulacra 11y agoI find there's this weird invisible line with most people. They're all willing to talk and hang out and be jovial, but then once you cross the strange invisible line, they don't want to interact anymore. I'm not talking about something creepy, it's more like you've used up all of your in person minutes or something. Now you have to wait till next month before you can engage them again.
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- return0 11y agoOverrated. The internet is immensely more stimulating, that's what drove us there in the first place. If you 're old enough to remember the pre-internet world, you 'd know what i mean.
- Simulacra 11y agoI am! I remember the incredible discovery of meeting people far away across large bulletin board systems, and IRC chat rooms. It led to lifelong in person friendships. I'm afraid that now because it's so easy to meet people and disengage from people at will, we have no reason to invest in long-term friendships.