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Prolonged stretches of being unable to see the real world, invoking feels of fear, anxiety, and uncertainty Every day on my walking commute to work and when I
by stcredzero 8y ago
Prolonged stretches of being unable to see the real world, invoking feels of fear, anxiety, and uncertainty
Every day on my walking commute to work and when I go out to get lunch, I keep on having to walk around and avoid people whose faces are buried in their phones, sometimes walking straight at me, completely oblivious to those around them.
- zapzupnz 8y agoNot remotely comparable. They can still see around them, their peripheral vision allowing them to notice when there's somebody next to them, in front of them. They can detect dangers to avoid through sight and sound, and they can easily glance up to see what's coming ahead. Also: they're out and about in town doing things, moving between here and there, maybe going to meet someone at a café for lunch, not stuck in a building with a headset on. Totally incomparable.
- stcredzero 8y agoThere was one young man at a WWDC, who had his head buried in his phone while on the escalator. He reached the end of the escalator and just stopped where he was. All of us behind him on the escalator were yelling at him not to stop. I don't know how no one got hurt or killed, but we all somehow got around him. As I passed him, he seemed to not have noticed anything at all. Not remotely comparable...Totally incomparable. Note the above quote: "Prolonged stretches of being unable to see the real world, invoking feels of fear, anxiety, and uncertainty." Haven't we seen quite a few articles recently about how social media tends to produce feelings like that? They are very different things, but there are certain similarities.