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That way of communicating with your child is some black mirror shit
by mjoin 5y ago
That way of communicating with your child is some black mirror shit
- retSava 5y agoHehe, if that were the only modus of communication, yeah :). Thankfully it isn't, we are also known for leaving messages in the snow, ads in the local newspaper under pseudonyms, anon leetspeaks on the dark webs, and occasionally speaking with one another :). I do like Black mirror :)
- mkl 5y agoWhy? It's just an instant message.
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoIf you prefer shouting up the stairs through multiple doors over whatever it is they're doing, that's your prerogative of course.
- nsxwolf 5y agoAnyone remember home intercoms? They seemed to be incredibly popular in new home construction for awhile in the late 80s and early 90s where I live. They were very useful. They seemed to disappear without really being replaced by anything. I’m considering getting a bunch of HomePod Minis to try out the intercom function.
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- _joel 5y agoBack when mobiles had become more accessible. My friend would phone his sister downstairs to get us some snack and drinks. She wasn't impressed, to say the least
- a4isms 5y agoMy mother had one installed in the moid-seventies, it was a nine-days wonder in the village (well, Toronto’s Little Italy pre-gentrification). She also had the hard-wired phone handsets rewired to use big, clunky four-prong plugs, so she could install a RadioShack-branded answering machine that was the size of a small suitcase. They hadn’t invented controllers that could rewind the outgoing message cassette, so you had to use a special cassette with an infinite loop. You’d think that back then we had to walk uphill to AND from school, in a blizzard, in June, but actually, the weather wasn’t much worse than today and yes, hang out on my lawn all you like.
- exikyut 5y ago> a RadioShack-branded answering machine that was the size of a small suitcase. Huh, interesting. As a bit of vaguely-relevant trivia, I found this fascinating recording someone made of some phone systems from the early-mid 70s: http://www.wideweb.com/phonetrips/VRHQ.mp3 http://www.wideweb.com/phonetrips/VRHQ.mp3 (~30min) (from http://www.wideweb.com/phonetrips/ http://www.wideweb.com/phonetrips/, "Two Early Voice Recognition Systems"). Not quite answering machines, but if the same technical acumen were applied to recording messages I expect the result would have been very impressive. I look at this as an interesting way to get an idea of the bounds of the status quo of where technology was generally at around the ~70s. This is really cool, but also within the bounds of what was reasonably conceivable and maintainable for the period. The recording notes that system/technology was observed finding its way into a few different use cases.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 5y agoI don't see why. Can you elaborate? Black Mirror explicitly explores paths of technology gone wrong? I might be missing the concern here. For the record; I think its cool. I do like my LG ( but it is not connected to anything ). This is the first time ever I am actually tempted.
- Angostura 5y agoMy daughter wanted a colour changing lightbulb in her bedroom, so I bought a Homekit-enabled one. I'll call her for dinner a couple of times, but of she still hasn't responded after that (headphones on, usually). "Hey Siri Red Alert" will start pulsing her light red. At which point there is much grumbling and stomping. Black Mirror? Maybe, but hey, I have to get my enjoyment where I can.
- rndgermandude 5y agoBlack mirror or not, I like this, and can see the enjoyment in this too :D When I was a kid, when I didn't show up within 5 minutes of being called for dinner, I wasn't allowed to sit down at the table anymore. I then had to wait until everybody else was done, and enjoy a usually cold meal afterwards, and any dessert was usually gone by that time too. And I had to do the cleanup. Suffice it to say, we kids weren't late a lot of times.
- xattt 5y agoAnd if you wanted to make the ceiling light flash, you had to manually and laboriously flick the switch until a parent yelled at you that it was bad for light bulbs. Kids these days!
- rndgermandude 5y agoyeah. When it was summer and I was like 6 or 7, my parents bought me a cheap digital wrist watch with alarm function, otherwise I would have never made it back to dinner in time when I was outside on the playground, biking around with buddies or playing football (soccer). That was the most "tech" parenting I ever experienced while subject to said parenting :P I later learned from mom that other parents too kinda relied on that thing going off, so their own kids would go home too when they heard my alarm.
- jes 5y agoI have a color scheme in my Hue setup called “Rig for Red.” I like being able to say “Alexa, turn on Rig for Red in Living Room.” :-)
- Netcob 5y agoI think that's basically just a notification. Where it gets creepy is when parents install 24/7 surveillance cameras in their childrens bedrooms. I can kinda understand it when it's about being able to quickly check if your baby is okay, but I doubt every parent has the decency to disable it eventually to give their child some privacy. There's no way there aren't lots of children growing up with zero privacy right now.
- roody15 5y agoMy wife and I have three children and we don’t allow any cameras in the house. We believe some level of privacy is needed for normal human development and a healthy overall sense of well being.
- ezconnect 5y agoI just turn off the device wifi on the router if my child is not paying attention.
- nkrisc 5y agoBut sending someone a text message on the phone isn’t?
- mig39 5y agoI routinely SSH to my kid's iMac and use the 'say' command to deliver important messages. Like "this computer will be rebooting in 30 seconds ..."
- tekstar 5y agoIf you ever want a kid to listen to you, try airplaying to the Apple TV from your phone, turn on selfie camera and deliver the message
- semi-extrinsic 5y agoNah. We have Nest Mini's in our kids rooms, and I will routinely cast my phone audio to those speakers, turn the volume to max, type my message into the Google Translate webpage and then press the "Read Aloud" button. It's funny and it works.