89% of Americans say they check their phones within the first 10 minutes of waking up. 75% of Americans feel uneasy leaving their phone at home. 75% use their phone on the toilet. 69% have texted someone in the same room as them before. 60% sleep with their phone at night
Steven, that's thought-emotion-provoking. Marshall McLuhan used the word "interiorization" to describe how people can take on or take in the energy or behavioral aspect of the gadgets. i wonder about that nowadays with attention deficit and nervous system.
thx, Nowick! a midway incessant is when photos of nature get shared yet one wonders if anyone actually experienced the scene or said a prayer for the water, instead just 'taking' a picture. Also i've noticed recently that on the phone and sometimes in stores, employees are programmed to get info first, name, #. etc. yet sometimes i just want a question answered so i try to avoid buying into the info stuff.
"I propose that how we use the gadgets is one starting point for re-evaluation, the how being the consciousness with which we use them and a weighing of what we are not using enough….."
I once heard Bayo Akomolafe say that while we think we are using computers, their binary logic is polarizing and pixelating us and now reaching under our skin to grasp at our emotions…
Lovely and at times ironical meditation on our state of removal from most of what's real. To me this phrase nails it best: "an incessant need to be in communication with human beings, at the neglect of the non-human beings." This piece resonates especially at this moment as I just get off the phone from a bank rep, two days to respond to a help request, since it appears I can no longer send rent payments via their etransfer on desktop, but now requires mobile phone only. At the end of my rant he was speechless so I added one last rhetorical question: "Do you expect all your clients now are under 25?" That's the scariest part.
thanks, Peter, glad to know that bit is "useful..."
Steven, that's thought-emotion-provoking. Marshall McLuhan used the word "interiorization" to describe how people can take on or take in the energy or behavioral aspect of the gadgets. i wonder about that nowadays with attention deficit and nervous system.
thx, Nowick! a midway incessant is when photos of nature get shared yet one wonders if anyone actually experienced the scene or said a prayer for the water, instead just 'taking' a picture. Also i've noticed recently that on the phone and sometimes in stores, employees are programmed to get info first, name, #. etc. yet sometimes i just want a question answered so i try to avoid buying into the info stuff.
a useful exercise in consciousness:
"I propose that how we use the gadgets is one starting point for re-evaluation, the how being the consciousness with which we use them and a weighing of what we are not using enough….."
I once heard Bayo Akomolafe say that while we think we are using computers, their binary logic is polarizing and pixelating us and now reaching under our skin to grasp at our emotions…
Lovely and at times ironical meditation on our state of removal from most of what's real. To me this phrase nails it best: "an incessant need to be in communication with human beings, at the neglect of the non-human beings." This piece resonates especially at this moment as I just get off the phone from a bank rep, two days to respond to a help request, since it appears I can no longer send rent payments via their etransfer on desktop, but now requires mobile phone only. At the end of my rant he was speechless so I added one last rhetorical question: "Do you expect all your clients now are under 25?" That's the scariest part.