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I own a smartphone. I could not give it up. That's not because of social media. It's because it's become the 7th sense for humans. I have vision, smell, hea
by rstuart4133 5y ago
I own a smartphone. I could not give it up.
That's not because of social media. It's because it's become the 7th sense for humans. I have vision, smell, hearing - but nothing that would let me see rain approaching from 100km away on radar, or tell me the position of a National Park boundary with 10m accuracy that I could not cross within my fishing live, or find a parking lot, or locate and pick up my lost wife in a foreign city, or become an arm of law enforcement by photographing an incident (especially when that incident is perpetrated by the people who our system trusts most - the law enforcers), and perhaps most importantly magnifying the power of my bullshit sensor by orders of magnitude with instant fact checking.
- onion2k 5y agoYou realise people did all those things before smartphones, right? You absolutely could do them all. It might be harder, but suggesting you couldn't do them is clearly just silly.
- watwut 5y agoThey did not. This things were much bigger undertaking. Locating and picking up someone in foreign city was long slow undertaking. It was not one phone call and done. People did not had cameras with them all the time, actually. It was not a thing that it is now. Navigating nature was harder without phone. It is much easier to find way back now, so I can wander mindlessly through unknown Forrest knowing phone will get me back if I get lost. You had to be way Korean aware and risk averse before.