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I’m hoping that the next generation will rebel by rejecting their parents’ generation’s obsession with the so-called smartphones. There are far too many people walking, driving and just plain standing in the way while they selfishly fiddle with their devices. There are also physical issues. I used to work with a guy who was always complaint about his sore neck while he sat hunched over his phone. Duh! According to recent research: “The hours you spend on your smartphone could be putting up to 60 lbs. of pressure on your spine, a new U.S. study says. …..People spend an average of two to four hours a day with their heads tilted over reading and texting on their smart phones and devices. Cumulatively this is 700 to 1400 hours a year of excess stresses seen about the cervical spine.” —For the love of god put that phone away!
This article appears in Nov 20-26, 2014.
You must admit, it is a boon for us Luddites who just want to mind our own business and not be bothered by pointless conversation with strangers. Soon there will even be an app for bums to instagram “Hay Buddy, gimme some change so I can buy some swill”. Don’t give a fuck drivers and sidewalk speed racers will continue to cull the herd, hell, they may even wipe each other out.
For us book lovers – time enough at last >: )
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Hear, hear! I don’t own a stupit cell phone. A boyfriend once bought me one to try to keep tabs, but I flung it in the closet where it collects dust. I also don’t have a telly. I fired it out the winder on my last manic episode so the government couldn’t spy on me through it. Homoerectus here – ma spine straight as an arrow. You forgot to mention all of the radiation going into your body while you be carrying those damn phones all day all up in your grill, cleavage, sleeping with the phone next to ya’ll pillows. Pathetic. Walking down Spring Garden at lunch, all the people are zombie-walking around talking on their cell phones. Like, what are you ALL brain surgeons late for surgery? Honeys please, nobody’s that important. Eriebody’s so busy text messaging in their fake little cyberworld, that they’re forgetting to live in the life abundant. Relationships these days center around the constant text message. You can’t get away from the bastards. People are so insecure that they need to know where their partners are 24/7 – you can’t have no alibi; you can’t have a life, you are always “connected”. All day every day fiddling around thumbs going a mile a minute wasting your life with nothing really to say, except for “sup?”
The next generation will be braun chips, so get over it Gramps… Jesus!
“braun chips”?
I’ve invested heavily in a local start-up that’s perfected a process for making high energy protein crackers out of soy and lentils, so I’m ready for whatever dystopian future Hollywood can devise.
>: )
T9 is a wonderful excuse for not texting people.
A REVERSE DARWINISM
What we have here is graphic evidence to the effect that technological “advances” do not necessarily issue out into comparable advances in the human condition. Indeed, quite the reverse is the case with smartphone users. A reverse Darwinism is envisaged, one in which the Intellectual Underclass descends ever more deeply into empty flatulence, an unprecedented conceptual slippage into widespread idiocy.
There is, of course, paradox here. As the means of communication become ever more rapid and convenient the realization gradually is dawning, even among themselves, that the communicants have ever less to say that is remotely meaningful. One supposes that eventually human biology will adapt by way of an ever-shrinking cranial cavity from which only twittering sounds will be heard.
(Avatar #85: The Sad Story of Mary Tudor, Part II)
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
Gotta love dumbphones and their slaves.
Don’t carry one unless I absolutely have to. I call it ‘The Leash’.
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what does this have to do with lawn care?
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/25/living/10-si…