What those 2 guys wrote: Me, too. What's the point of making phones smarter when it allows people to be stupider? Why in the world would anyone want an automated dictator to tell them when and where to steer their car and forego the delights of studying (and to some degree internalizing) a good ol' paper-printed roadmap? Who (and why) wants to know each instance of and make a decision dozens of times a day about whether or not to receive or respond to an attempted contact, written or spoken? Why are smart-phoners so uncomfortable in their own skin and solitude that they can't luxuriate in the knowledge that their solitude and their own trains of thoughts are going to remain unbroken for a spell? Why would anyone who knows how to tune a piano want to make the job more tedious and abstract by responding to blinking electronics rather than to warm musical tones floating directly into one's ears? I better stop. Joseph Giandalone, RPT Conway, MA On Apr 28, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Ron Nossaman wrote: > On 4/28/2012 9:56 AM, Joseph Garrett wrote: > >> I have no need for the electronic crap that most are wasting >> precious time on. > > Well Joe, I don't own a smart phone either. As it turns out, I don't really have a whole lot of use for even a simple cell phone, other than letting a customer know I'm at the front door. They'll not hear the doorbell, but are constitutionally incapable of ignoring a ringing phone. I've never found the need to text anyone, and have actually made it through entire days without being in constant personal contact with someone for every second, having music pouring into my ears from a radio or digital player, or both. I don't have 73,294 "friends" on Facebook that I've never heard of and have successfully figured out for myself which way the screw turns to tighten it without posting the question on a forum or - gasp - paleolithic email list. I do, as I've said before, read, and am for the most part aware of the technology that's available in the latest shallow and sparkly toy de jour, but usually chose to waste my time and cash on different interests. It's a personal choice everyone makes. So when you see me wandering around talking to myself and looking disoriented, it's not because I'm swapping empty chit chat with invisible friends through a state of the art nearly invisible Bluetooth headset and my smarter than me phone to stave off the horrors of loneliness and my own thoughts in crowds, it's because I'm discussing amongst myself some thought or concept that originated and has so far stayed within my own head. Weird, I know, and incomprehensible to most folks. The biggest problems inherent in internal self entertainment usually relate to the rest of the world presuming as a default, that I own, use, and am minute by minute dependent on the the toys that those who own and use them constantly presume that everyone worthy of attention also owns and uses constantly. Contrary to established cliches, the road to Hell is paved with arbitrary presumptions. > > Before someone immediately uses the Luddite word, I'll point out that I love toys as much as anyone. I just seem to have different tastes in what qualifies. > > Endtrans.... As you were, > Ron N
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