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I love my omni-devices a lot, but there is an anti-social angle to it that I wish I could get over. Nobody knows what you're doing on your iPad. You could be r
by rtpg 10y ago
I love my omni-devices a lot, but there is an anti-social angle to it that I wish I could get over.
Nobody knows what you're doing on your iPad. You could be reading your e-mails, scrolling through twitter, or buying something on Amazon. But in a more casual environment (living room, with friends), you lose opportunities for spontaneous interactions.
There's also a difficulty in sharing. You can't give the funny pages to someone. Hard to loan e-books sometimes.
I think some of this is solved by TV screens. Long term, I bet we'll be "casting" our phones to screens a lot more often in social environments.
But sometimes the limitation of physical goods is nice. Legos are funner than CAD software, most of the time.
- vosper 10y ago> You can't give the funny pages to someone. Take a screenshot, paste it into your WhatsApp chat group. Now you've shared it with your friends all around the world, for them to read at their pleasure. I agree with you on the ebooks, though.
- mojuba 10y agoFor this same reason modern cinematography often resorts to older tech or no tech. Dialling someone's number on the mobile is not as dramatic as doing it on older bulkier phones. Scrolling something on the iPad is not the same as paging a real book. Then there's writing a real letter, not knowing someone's whereabouts as opposed to just calling their mobile, etc. etc. Tech is social in its own way but it seems to be bringing these massive anthropological changes. It will be interesting to see whether the come back of physical tech like vinyl is serious or it's just some of kind of a protest of the older generation.
- rtpg 10y agoTech has ruined many classic ways of storytelling in cinema Nobody prints giant newspaper headlines anymore. Nobody holds a map upside-down. My bet is many more movies will be based in the 80s.