Re:What Happens When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone?
by nonrandomstring on Sunday November 05, 2023 @05:57PM
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> good to grow up without the best technological advancement of recent
years
A technological advancement is not necessarily a social or human
advancement. Often we don't know at the time how it's going to pan
out. Take the situation around "AI" right now, around which there is
at least significant caution. No doubt you will disagree, but a great
many people including myself think that smart-phones have been a great
loss for society and individual health.
> supercomputer that fits in your pocket and you can lookup everything
humanity has done in seconds.
This contrived retort is actually getting very jaded, because almost
nobody uses it to "lookup everything humanity has done in seconds" -
they use smartphones for TikTok and to order a pizza. Meanwhile
"everything humanity has done" is still in any encyclopedia.
> I understand the boomer sentiment of "phone bad"
TFA is about an 11yo who decided "phone bad"
> You can’t do banking, communication with friends and family, looking
knowledge up without a phone.
And that's a BIG PROBLEM. Not a desirable feature. Fortunately we have
11 year old kids who are bright enough to see that too. With a few
more of them we'll get a society where you can do banking,
communicate and learn using a wide choice of humane technologies.
We still believe in things like markets, right? That human needs and
demand drives technology, rather than the other way about?
A technological advancement is not necessarily a social or human advancement. Often we don't know at the time how it's going to pan out. Take the situation around "AI" right now, around which there is at least significant caution. No doubt you will disagree, but a great many people including myself think that smart-phones have been a great loss for society and individual health.
> supercomputer that fits in your pocket and you can lookup everything humanity has done in seconds.
This contrived retort is actually getting very jaded, because almost nobody uses it to "lookup everything humanity has done in seconds" - they use smartphones for TikTok and to order a pizza. Meanwhile "everything humanity has done" is still in any encyclopedia.
> I understand the boomer sentiment of "phone bad"
TFA is about an 11yo who decided "phone bad"
> You can’t do banking, communication with friends and family, looking knowledge up without a phone.
And that's a BIG PROBLEM. Not a desirable feature. Fortunately we have 11 year old kids who are bright enough to see that too. With a few more of them we'll get a society where you can do banking, communicate and learn using a wide choice of humane technologies.
We still believe in things like markets, right? That human needs and demand drives technology, rather than the other way about?