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Re:Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch by smanuel on Friday September 12, 2014 @05:06AM (#8307189)
> Take the metro / subway in any big, affluent city these days, and look around you. What do you see? People whose eyes are glued to their phone screens, oblivious to the persons around them, looking for "human warmth" in their virtual companion. That's really not the society I want to live in.

This old photo (http://imgur.com/WkHHpZ1) comes to mind when I read this. Don't blame technology.

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Re:Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch by LaGrange on Friday September 12, 2014 @05:35AM (#8307248)
And, on the phone I'm likely to be conversing with friends and acquaintances. Beats staring at newspapers. Oh, and my phone has OKCupid and Meetup.com.

But the original post goes into creepypasta territory with the human warmth thing. "Jobs: I feel her pulse against mine." It reminds me of http://windows95tips.com/post/34200923828

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Re:Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch by nly on Friday September 12, 2014 @07:18AM (#8307464)
On the other hand, you're just as likely to be playing Angry Birds.
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Re:Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch by LaGrange on Friday September 12, 2014 @10:22AM (#8308145)
That's terrible, but the likelihood of me being in contact with my peers remains higher. Relative social and/or personal usefulness of Angry Birds versus reading news is another matter.
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