The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is damaging our minds

Re:The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is ... by j45 on Monday January 08, 2018 @03:24PM (#16100099)

I did the same with my TI85 as well. Part of it I think is we have to focus on productivity and providing value because the hardware couldn't render high end experiences.

Creating seems to have fallen by the day wide compared to mindless consuming, interaction and feeding content to social aggregation companies who sell users attention to advertisers.

As dreary as this topic is, it's kind of nice to see a healthy exploration about more than the one current way of using tech.

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Re:The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is ... by jstarfish on Monday January 08, 2018 @04:15PM (#16100667)

> Part of it I think is we have to focus on productivity and providing value because the hardware couldn't render high end experiences.

Constraint drives creativity.

Early web development had the same principles...you could only expect the user to wait so long for a page load on a dialup connection before you lost their attention, so the goal was to make each and every one worth the wait.

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Re:The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is ... by TylerE on Monday January 08, 2018 @03:40PM (#16100290)

I think the key thing with programming on the T/Is was that input handling and output was super super simple.

Text display addressable by row/column... something like 8x24 if memory serves?

No mucking about with event loops, window handlers, setup functions...

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Re:The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is ... by j45 on Monday January 08, 2018 @04:56PM (#16101041)

Yup.

ticalc.org was great too. Build your own serial transfer cable... Build external storage..

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