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The Machine Stops by Oliver Sacks
- labrador 4y agohttps://archive.is/Eueeh https://archive.is/Eueeh
- jschveibinz 4y agoWhat a smart person was Oliver Sacks, and his writing was always thought provoking. In this piece, I believe he failed to identify the real value of cell phones to humans: validation. We far underestimate the social needs of the average person. The cell phone—and now the smartphone-is the fountain that satisfies our continuous thirst for social validation. It’s not what is being said, it is that someone else is paying attention.