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In essence, wearable computing (remember when that was a fantasy?) has been displacing television as the societal drug of choice. In both cases, the technology'
by lukifer 13y ago
In essence, wearable computing (remember when that was a fantasy?) has been displacing television as the societal drug of choice. In both cases, the technology's effect on brain chemistry is literally overwhelming for many (or most).
Obviously the genie's not going back in the bottle; we'll have to learn to live with the costs of our marvellous creations, and create personal and social habits to mititage their side effects. So it goes.
- ef4 13y agoYour contrast with television is astute. People who complain that digital technology leaves us isolated have it completely backward. Digital technology is slowly giving us back some of the interconnectedness that we lost to television, cars, and suburbs.
- bostik 13y ago> People who complain that digital technology leaves us isolated have it completely backward. Digital technology is slowly giving us back some of the interconnectedness that we lost I am not entirely certain whether the two are mutually exclusive. Sure, we're regaining the ability to interact with other people on a nearly universal (or maybe just "global") scale. But at the same time we're not really giving them the attention they might deserve. Or need. The same advances that allow us to constantly communicate with one another? They have also made it easier to ignore people without suffering from social discomfort. It's easier to just get distracted by yet-another-shiny-thing if we lose our interest, even momentarily, for any reason at all.