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I really don't know how to feel about this article, because it's barely a review of a phone, and more of a review of phone culture. The actual review of a phone
by whorleater 8y ago
I really don't know how to feel about this article, because it's barely a review of a phone, and more of a review of phone culture. The actual review of a phone is only a smidge more than a press release ("call screening is cool! cameras are good!"), but then it makes some nice digressions into phone culture, yet never seems to reach a satisfying conclusion?
I suppose this says something about the state of phones where "reviews" can basically be anything cause all smartphones are pretty much the same now.
- faitswulff 8y agoThis piece shouldn't be read as just a review. I see it as a commentary on how mundane tech can be while simultaneously undermining the fabric of society.
- WillPostForFood 8y agoWorld looked pretty bad in the 20th century, and it (mostly) happened without cell phones to blame.
- faitswulff 8y agoI don't have a bone in this fight.
- gsibble 8y agoYou mean the century where the 2nd half of it saw the greatest acceleration of invention amd wealth creation in history that has yet to be repeated? The most prominent time in history? That century?
- TomMarius 8y agoThe first half of that one certainly was very bad.
- WillPostForFood 8y agoNothing going on in the world today compares to the low points of the 20th century. Even if you want to ignore the first half, we had Cambodia. Genocide, Korean War, Gulag, Vietnam War, endless Cold War chaos, multiple Arab Israeli wars, Rwandan genocide. We are now enjoying the dividends of prosperity created then. But to claim things are worse now is absurd. And thats ignoring the first half which had two world wars and the most killing and death in human history, all without cell phones to blame.