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The fall of the wrist watch has a lot more to do with the rise of the mobile phone that has a clock (even "dumb" phones had the time). Regular people have an eq
by argumentum 13y ago
The fall of the wrist watch has a lot more to do with the rise of the mobile phone that has a clock (even "dumb" phones had the time). Regular people have an equal if not greater need to coordinate with each other than soldiers in war.
- aaronem 13y agoCivilians also tend to have a lot more clocks handy, even absent mobile phones. I'll grant, though, that wristwatches would've stuck around, as an acceptably convenient means of carrying around a timepiece, had not mobile phones with clock displays come along. The point, in any case, is that there's nothing intrinsically special about wearing a chronometer, or any other information display, on one's wrist, such that "smart watches" are necessarily a qualitative improvement over, for example, "smart phones".