“Touchscreen Hell?”
yes! Notice that there is barely any social interaction between the (fake) people of this video.
They are all looking at their devices and forget to look at each other for more than a second.
I went to a bar the other day with 5 other “friends”. At one point there was 4 of them looking at their iDevice for some info we couldnt care less about. Me and the only other guy not using those device were looking at each other in despair. I could see in is face what he was thinking: man this night is gonna be soo boring… and he was right.
I never really understood why poeple liked those iPhone that much, but that night it totaly killed it for me.
I am not against technologies per see, but they gotta learn when to turn it off. Personaly I may be old school since I got my first cell phone less than a year ago(a real cell phone, made to talk to people and nothing else..), but I never bring it with me except for big ride of car (for security purpose). If I am not home, that mean I am doing something, that mean I don’t want to talk to you right now.
This was very interesting to see, and I’m glad you brought it to our attention Kevin. This is a Corning industrial/commercial promo, but it shows what Corning envisions as the future of their glass: every piece of clear surface in existence being a conduit for internet connectivity.
Like most visions of future events, almost everything in this promo is either pointless or simply not interesting enough to actually come about, but there are some things that excite interest (like surfaces that interface with hand-held devices).
I’ve been teaching classes at a Waldorf high school lately (which I should mention is one of very few such school in a rural setting), and frankly these “well-grounded Waldorf-y faculty” have only just had to discover the lure that internet/hand-held devices are having over students. It seems silly — most “public” schools (really State schools) have been forced to ban these devices outright, which arguably only teaches children that dictatorial bans are just a part of everyday life — but in this case we’re dealing with an open-minded realization that this technology is every bit an addiction akin to the drug problem schools were dealing with in the ’70’s. Namely, children growing-up in primarily ‘non-techno’ homes are discovering and succumbing to the techno needs (cravings) of their peers….and it’s affecting their ability to adapt and develop as young individuals. Unlike drugs, however, there is no social stigma on attention-deficit living…
And no DEA or ATF for my child’s desire to surf the ‘net on the window of her/his school or city bus.
Defense.gov News Photo 110426-A-7597S-183: U.S. Special Operations service members with Special Operations Task Force South board two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters following a clearing operation in Panjwa'i district in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, on April 25, 2011. Source: Wikimedia.
“Touchscreen Hell?”
yes! Notice that there is barely any social interaction between the (fake) people of this video.
They are all looking at their devices and forget to look at each other for more than a second.
I went to a bar the other day with 5 other “friends”. At one point there was 4 of them looking at their iDevice for some info we couldnt care less about. Me and the only other guy not using those device were looking at each other in despair. I could see in is face what he was thinking: man this night is gonna be soo boring… and he was right.
I never really understood why poeple liked those iPhone that much, but that night it totaly killed it for me.
I am not against technologies per see, but they gotta learn when to turn it off. Personaly I may be old school since I got my first cell phone less than a year ago(a real cell phone, made to talk to people and nothing else..), but I never bring it with me except for big ride of car (for security purpose). If I am not home, that mean I am doing something, that mean I don’t want to talk to you right now.
This was very interesting to see, and I’m glad you brought it to our attention Kevin. This is a Corning industrial/commercial promo, but it shows what Corning envisions as the future of their glass: every piece of clear surface in existence being a conduit for internet connectivity.
Like most visions of future events, almost everything in this promo is either pointless or simply not interesting enough to actually come about, but there are some things that excite interest (like surfaces that interface with hand-held devices).
I’ve been teaching classes at a Waldorf high school lately (which I should mention is one of very few such school in a rural setting), and frankly these “well-grounded Waldorf-y faculty” have only just had to discover the lure that internet/hand-held devices are having over students. It seems silly — most “public” schools (really State schools) have been forced to ban these devices outright, which arguably only teaches children that dictatorial bans are just a part of everyday life — but in this case we’re dealing with an open-minded realization that this technology is every bit an addiction akin to the drug problem schools were dealing with in the ’70’s. Namely, children growing-up in primarily ‘non-techno’ homes are discovering and succumbing to the techno needs (cravings) of their peers….and it’s affecting their ability to adapt and develop as young individuals. Unlike drugs, however, there is no social stigma on attention-deficit living…
And no DEA or ATF for my child’s desire to surf the ‘net on the window of her/his school or city bus.