sufi
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my main beef is android, which seems hard to avoid, though nokia apparently have an OS for their cheap smartphone that may be less intrusive, i wish
smartphone gawpers
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Civilisation would stand a chance if the Internet, in its entirety, was powered down every now and then. Sundays or perhaps even as infrequently as Bank Holidays would suffice. Anywhere doing that would have to invest in the resilience of its utilities, retail, emergency services which would pay dividends in the event of cyber warfare and would become peopled with a happier, less mentally-disturbed population in a very short time.
Mark my words: Switzerland will give Internet Offdays a whirl within the next five years.
Mark my words: Switzerland will give Internet Offdays a whirl within the next five years.
droid
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Still banging the 'ban the internet' drum?
luka
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i went a couple of weeks without the phone this summer just cos i smashed it and couldnt be bothered going carphone warehouse to replace it. it was fine. didnt seem like a big deal although when i have one i look at it constantly.
having off days is something i keep meaning to implement and never do.
having off days is something i keep meaning to implement and never do.
Yes. Just a tapping a lone cymbal for now, but soon to become an enormous peal of Luddite thunder.
luka
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it's just not something you can ignore is it? it's like not wearing deoderant or something.
Mr. Tea
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Same here. When I'm without a smartphone I just end up forcing myself to take a book wherever I go as I get bored easily while waiting for appointments or getting served or whatever. Actually I find it really makes me appreciate the pleasures of reading printed text, and not an ever-updating screen, while having a quiet pint.
Leo
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i still subscribe to a lot of magazines (don't ask) and find i probably do about half my reading of them when out to lunch on my own or waiting in a pub for friends to arrive (i am habitually early).
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"Google, Twitter and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks alarmed by a race for human attention"
https://www.theguardian.com/technol...tion-silicon-valley-dystopia?CMP=share_btn_tw
https://www.theguardian.com/technol...tion-silicon-valley-dystopia?CMP=share_btn_tw
firefinga
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Very interesting !
rubberdingyrapids
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it is. but it is also quite convenient.
they made $$$$ from creating the applications that led to addictions (and dont kid yourself that they innocently had no clue about the apps being addicting).
now they are going to rake it in by telling us how to help cure ourselves of these addictions.
after all, who better an authority than those who made the technology, now with a money making conscience?
nothing wrong with an old fashioned pocket AtoZ.
train delays will always happen whether you are told of them in advance or not.
life is meant to be left up to chance.
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Leo
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nothing wrong with phone books and encyclopedias either, but i'd prefer not to have to carry them around for reference.
and why wouldn't you want to know that train line A is out before you've paid your fair, when you would still have the opportunity to take train line B as an alternate means?
i get your point but from a practical purposes perspective, there are indisputable benefits to a smartphone. i still love happenstance and stumbling upon things, one does not preclude the other.
sufi
lala
suspiciously social media friendly soundbite from this long article
https://www.economist.com/news/brie...d-once-considered-boon-democracy-social-media
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