I spent my career in tech, but wasn’t prepared for its effect on my kids

Re:I spent my career in tech, but wasn’t prepared for its ef... by avip on Thursday August 24, 2017 @06:34PM (#15094651)

This is not completely unlike saying "drugs can help me focus and boost my creativity". Sure, it can, and a diminishing and statistically insignificant minority use it exclusively for that. As to the rest of us... we're just junkies.

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Re:I spent my career in tech, but wasn’t prepared for its ef... by Retra on Thursday August 24, 2017 @08:27PM (#15095199)

I don't think it's fair to blame phones for most people being near average.

90% of what 90% of people say just doesn't matter. So it doesn't matter if they're staring at their phones instead of talking about their weekend plans or their cousin's weddings, or any other tidbit of nothing that occupies their public vocalizations.

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Re:I spent my career in tech, but wasn’t prepared for its ef... by micheljones on Saturday August 26, 2017 @12:19PM (#15106086)

Nobody blames phones for most people being average. Phones are not the problem at all.

The problem is the companies that shape their services provided through the phone to be optimized towards abusing well-documented behavioral characteristics of 'average people'.

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