Questions
Awesome old Motorola Razr's and the Nokia 8110, which in themselves had a sense of personality and style. In fact, the Motorola Razr has been released in a new form, featuring a flip and a bendable screen. There have been some issues but it looks pretty cool. It also costs as much as a laptop.
Dematerialisation
- How does telecommunications technology affect your life today? Think about something positive, something negative, and something that you hadn’t considered before.
- Think about it regarding your sense of identity? How do mobile phones inform your sense of identity and which aspects of mobile phones inform this? How does it make you feel?
- How does it affect your sense of time? Which aspects of mobile phone technology affects your sense of time?
- Did reading about telecommunications technology and its effects on people change your perception of any of these traits?
Awesome old Motorola Razr's and the Nokia 8110, which in themselves had a sense of personality and style. In fact, the Motorola Razr has been released in a new form, featuring a flip and a bendable screen. There have been some issues but it looks pretty cool. It also costs as much as a laptop.
Reintroduction of the Nokia 8110 with modern features and a reduced scope of smartness.
As an example, here's a short video of somebody demonstrating their collection of old mobile phones and then a video demonstrating the evolution of Nokia phones from the very beginning until now.
Dematerialisation
'The Cloud' is physical. It is made up a huge number of servers requiring huge amounts of energy, electrical goods, physical space and data linkage. This article at The Guardian says digital server farms could be contributing 2% of greenhouse gas emissions each year. Though, lots of server systems are also set up now to accommodate for solar power.
In addition to the 'cloud' being a physical object means that your data is literally being held somewhere physical, and this can have huge repercussions depending on which country happens to control that data. For example, Russia bought LiveJournal so that it could access the data and find people who were actively campaigning against Russian activities. See ReplyAll episode of #100 Friends and Blasphemers for more details.
San Junipero episode of Black Mirror is an excellent examination of what a life lived in the cloud might look like and what it might mean. It's also an incredibly beautiful story and well worth watching.
Ownership of media also shifts
You don’t own media now, you are merely granted the ability to watch it. Trade deals between companies means that your favourite films and series on one provider might switch to another (or licensing between countries might shift). Also, your taste and accessible media is dictated by a third-party. You’re shown what it wants you to show. And, how much of your funds is actually going towards your favourite artists?
This ties into the box economy in some ways. Apple, Samsung, and other “smartphone” sellers provide you with an empty box or blank slate onto which you imbue your own personality. The objects are the same but its contents are a part of you.
Online purchasing systems increase global transportation of goods and reduce prices devaluing goods and encouraging spending. Also, companies such as UberEats exist to run down traditional business models.
Who has responsibility for truth?
There’s an argument that Facebook is a publisher according to law, which means that it is also directly responsible for the views that are promoted on its website. These would include both fact and fiction. In public, it says it is nothing more Etna a tech platform, sort of like a web host (holding no public responsibility) though in court it is argued that it is a publisher. If it is a publisher, it needs to monitor fake news. Which is it trying to do with almost zero success.
Fake news has real life consequences such as Pizzagate (ReplyAll: #83 Voyage into Pizzagate) and a list of other issues. Also, refer back to the COVID-10 conspiracy theories that are currently running rampant. This is incredibly dangerous on a global scale.
Time
This ties into the box economy in some ways. Apple, Samsung, and other “smartphone” sellers provide you with an empty box or blank slate onto which you imbue your own personality. The objects are the same but its contents are a part of you.
Online purchasing systems increase global transportation of goods and reduce prices devaluing goods and encouraging spending. Also, companies such as UberEats exist to run down traditional business models.
Who has responsibility for truth?
There’s an argument that Facebook is a publisher according to law, which means that it is also directly responsible for the views that are promoted on its website. These would include both fact and fiction. In public, it says it is nothing more Etna a tech platform, sort of like a web host (holding no public responsibility) though in court it is argued that it is a publisher. If it is a publisher, it needs to monitor fake news. Which is it trying to do with almost zero success.
Fake news has real life consequences such as Pizzagate (ReplyAll: #83 Voyage into Pizzagate) and a list of other issues. Also, refer back to the COVID-10 conspiracy theories that are currently running rampant. This is incredibly dangerous on a global scale.
Time
- mobile phone addiction disengagement form real life
- time scarcity / poverty and ‘The Joyless Economy’ by Scitovsky
Questions
- Have you felt either of these things in your own life? Either, the sense that you are disengaged from real life, or distracted from things you should, or want, to be doing?
- What are these distractions for you? How do you deal with it?
- What has been your response with COVID-19? Are you using more or less media?
Also, regarding covid-19 bring up the concept of “If you don't come out of this quarantine with: ... you never lacked time, you lacked discipline.” Don't buy into it. If you're enjoying life, you're doing just fine.
I’m going to take a wild stab in the dark here and guess that Mr Haynes is *not* currently attempting to homeschool/entertain/feed & resolve disputes for dependents while also attempting to work. If I come out of this quarantine with even a shred of sanity I will be WINNING. https://t.co/QEENT7qCLo— Georgie Dent (@georgiedent) April 5, 2020
Identity
- How do you define yourself?
- What helps to define this sense of self?
- Are you confident in this definition?
1. Unsustainability and the erosion of public goods (consider a shift towards Uber for convenience as opposed to public transport and even there the tendency for governments to privatise public goods for quick profit forsaking long-term public advantage. What about ride shares?
2. Erosion of time which forces us to constantly interact when really you need to set time aside for certain tasks.
- Think about your own sense of focus—how long do you feel you can focus on a task or read a lengthy article?
- What techniques do you have to come back to concentration?
- What do you think of the idea of switching off from internet and Telecommunications or turn off Personal Communication Devices?
- What’s important to you?
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