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This article has been published every year since the headphones were invented. Before the headphones the isolation device were books, a thing that would make u
by xchip 10y ago
This article has been published every year since the headphones were invented.
Before the headphones the isolation device were books, a thing that would make us detach from reality and turn us crazy (this is the main plot of Don Quixote, a novel written in 1620)
- qntty 10y agoThis is also one of the main points of this article.
- xchip 10y agowhich one exactly? I quickly scanned though it and didn't find anything interesting but the usual cliches
- oneeyedpigeon 10y ago> It turns out that observers have been fretting about headphones—and the disconnection they facilitate—for decades. Early Walkman prototypes included a second headphone jack so you could share your tunes with a buddy ...
- saturdaysaint 10y agoIt's amazing how few commenters seem to show any comprehension of the article.
- xchip 10y agoNo wonder given low wheat/chaff ratio this article has. Most people are working and can only quickly scan through it trying to find the main points. If the smart people in ycombinator get the wrong point it probably means the article was poorly written.
- saturdaysaint 10y agoMost of the comments seem indicative of an exceptionally poor scan, or at least a scan optimized for a Vox article or Reddit ELIF thread. I also scanned the article and thought it was obvious that the point was far afield from "headphones/technology bad" - just read the first sentence of the first four paragraphs and the shape of the argument is pretty easy to intuit. I don't have time to get into the meaning of a sharp uptick in headphone usage either, but shitcomments that are obviously reactions to the photo caption are the real chaff here.