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The attention drain will expand from smartphones to augmented reality, visual and auditory. Teenagers already engaging in a mild, early form of audio AR without
by partyboat1586 7y ago
The attention drain will expand from smartphones to augmented reality, visual and auditory. Teenagers already engaging in a mild, early form of audio AR without stigma predicts this will happen. I do not look forward to this future and the inevitable struggles we will go through in finding a way to use AR responsibily without impacting mental health and social cohesiveness. I'm sure AR will be important to our future and will be a great enabler but it is not without its risks, the main one being stolen attention.
- germinalphrase 7y agoUnfortunately, designing products with social/mental/moral welfare tends to push them into a higher price point vs mass market. Caring about “mental health and social cohesiveness” will not win out against feeding users’ vanity, individualism and pleasure drive. It’s a task to think about though. How much veiling and social intermediation will people accept (or socially require) before the deep alienation sets in?