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This might seem ridiculous, but I become very aware of this feeling when I buy a new phone or computer for the first week or so or if I use someone else's phone
by grawprog 6y ago
This might seem ridiculous, but I become very aware of this feeling when I buy a new phone or computer for the first week or so or if I use someone else's phone or computer.
New devices feel foreign and strange for a bit until they're configured and setup properly and you get used to the new features or speed or whatever.
Whenever I use someone else's phone or computer, I always feel like I need to be careful not to intrude, avoid the gallery, texting apps, email apps things like that. Stay out of the documents and random storage folders and stuff.
It gives me the same feeling as being alone in someone else's house. If I go through that kind of stuff it'd be like rummaging through their drawers or their bedroom or something.
- roel_v 6y agoLooking at this from the other side, I gave remote desktop control to a printer tech a few weeks ago and I felt weirdly violated for a long time. Even something as simple as people moving my keyboard halves into weird angles is unsettling, and in a much more intimate way than say people adjusting a car seat, which is just a minor inconvenience (to me, I imagine this could be different for people who are attached to their car).
- spupy 6y agoThis was taken to the extreme in the novel Accelerando. The main character is mugged and loses his "cyberware". He thus loses the memories and thinking capabilities he had offloaded to the hardware.
- gonzo41 6y agoConsidering how stunted most people are without a phone and google on hand. Sounds like the main character had a rough time learning to spell and do math again :).
- WJW 6y agoIt was way worse than that in the novel. He didn't even know his own name anymore IIRC.
- ASalazarMX 6y agoBackups, people! Or at least don't offload your whole identity to an external device.