the_powerless
It really is. I've done it (albeit not literally).
>Hell, I’d just like a break from the constant flood of notifications screaming for my attention at all hours of the day.
>Say I’m on a work trip and my husband sends me a cute video of our kid — how exactly do I watch that on a screenless AI Pin? How do I text my sister about something gross that happened to me without telling everyone else in my immediate vicinity about it, too?
Then you have to figure out if the downsides are worth the benefits. The tricky thing, much like other addictions, is that you don't realise what a heavy price you are paying until you try without.
>If there’s a path to this screenless future, it needs to be paved with a few screens in the present.
This statement makes no sense.
If all you have is a hammer...
I have an opposing view. The current popularity of those particular crafting items has resulted in a plethora of crumbling and misshapen plastic widgets with barely-functional networking features that required limited creativity or novel ideas to create. This is to the detriment of the many other skills and crafts used to create physical objects.
This is a comically US-centric "diversity initiative". Just goes to show how difficult it is to break out of that mindset. Then again, the US is both a vast and an isolated country, so I cut ya'll some slack.
I read that book during 2020. It should be obligatory reading for anyone who appreciates Orwell's 1984, and provides a concise, first-hand account of how humans manufacture and sustain the systems of their own oppression.
One of the most fascinating insights was that those at the top of the power system are not the most free, as you might think, but rather the most constrained. Those at the very bottom are the only ones free to act exactly as they wish (hence the title).
There is also insightful discussion whether dissidents should act within or without the system, and raises the point that "the system" itself provides powerful tools that anyone can wield (eg, a CoC).