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Margaret W. posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
Another look at behaviour modification from Melissa and Aaron Dy kes, Truthstream Media: A Talking Cricket, a Self-Writing Quill, and the Coming Hive Mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ekkwAyNf1w [26:18]
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As C.A.Fitts and other have been saying, electronic entrainment is alive and well. Just watch any crowd in most cities who instead of LOOKING where they are going or, Lord forbid, at other PEOPLE, keep staring at and fingering a small device they hold in their hands (yours truly is a “conchy” i.e. a consciencious objector against “smart phones” )
It is amazing ho much discrimination you can face for not having a cell phone (I don’t).
People tell me what they have read or written on “whatsapp” and how they have left “chat groups” in a huff because they felt offended… as I listen with a smile, half sympathetic and half ironic…
I have a simple flip phone, it’s not ‘smart’ and it doesn’t ‘text’ . . . cell phone zombies in public are amusing and entertaining to watch . . . .
I only use it to upload my 8 gb (and growing) of books ‘loaned’ from Archive.org lol…
Its actually quite amuzing.. (yeh I know its spelt incorrectly..) I did an art project on mobile phones and the interactions of spaces inbetween people when I was at University.. that’d be.. around 2000.. when they only thing we had were those indestructable nokia phones..no internet, and they only thing it could do was snake.. I knew they’d end up screwing us over.. Did a project in my first year about drug abusers/addicts and zombies..(the zombies were the ones who were watching the TV.. lol).. I should have paid more attention to what I was doing..