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FYI: The article itself is on the top right of the pseudo-PDF that this link renders. After reading it, I thought it was funny to imagine "reading" replace wit
by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 4y ago
FYI: The article itself is on the top right of the pseudo-PDF that this link renders.
After reading it, I thought it was funny to imagine "reading" replace with "Instagram" in the original author's invective. It would be so much fun to live in a world where everyone was constantly reading books everywhere now! But, these days, whenever there's an idle moment, most people reach for their phones and plug in to the nearest dopamine feed.
Maybe this is just how it goes. In 25 years, maybe everyone will just don their VR goggles while they're on public transit, and people will long for the days when everyone sat around scrolling their phones, and it was still possible to make eye contact.
- lloeki 4y ago> whenever there's an idle moment, most people reach for their phones and plug in to the nearest dopamine feed Then take a peek at the first one, "The Egregious Now". I don't think you even have to change a single word!
- atoav 4y agoI might have been that dude on the bus stop who grabbed his phone. What you might not have realized was that I was writing my master thesis there. And when I was not writing I was reading and annotating sources. A phone looks like a phone, it is very hard to know what people do on it. They could make a bank transfer, read Aristoteles, look at puppy pictures, read the news, chat to an old friend, ...