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Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by PretzelFisch »

My two cents, I don't care about your addiction don't assume it is mine too. I wake up at 4:30 am and hit the "gym". So yes my first screens are an alarm, then the ipad to keep my mind distracted. around 7 I enjoy watching the sun come up while I have a cup of coffee to make the most of SIP. When life was normal I would walk to work and enjoyed that a lot. I also make it a point to go outside for 1-2 sort walks each day.

I don't see much difference between my use of tv,cpu compared to my parents tv/paper/magazine or grand parents tv/radio/paper and magazines. Every generation has new socialization norms and every one has to fight for attention.

Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by apocalypstyx »

phoenixdblack wrote: post #41
cdubzzz wrote: post #20

Lately I’ve been wondering if an upcoming generation is going to be more anti-technology, or at least anti-smartphone. I’ve got a 2.5 year old who will occasionally say, “put your phone down, daddy”, or even swipe it from my hand (though we of course try to discourage that, hah) when I’m not paying enough attention to him. As he has grown up and started doing this, it has made me much more aware of my phone time and…

I don't think smartphones will stay with us for very long. They'll probably be replaced by future technologies less clunky (and yes, I am calling smarthphones clunky) in favor of things like glasses, contacts and implants. I think our children won't be "anti-smartphone" in the same vain as we are not "anti-mainframe"

I think it will be the opposite. I see an oblong, handheld, glass-ish-surfaced slab as our QWERTY keyboard (an interface ideology that has now plagued us for 147 years). Solutions to particular engineering problems in particular times and places tend to stick around far longer than technically necessary. (Most of the mechanical limitations that made QWERTY necessary were solved barely a decade after the Sholes and Glidden came about, yet even now the layout appears on our phone screens.)

Re: May Sky Challenge

#73

Post by ashtonkem »

phoenixdblack wrote: post #60
dangus wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t buy your vision of the future because interacting with things with our hands is the most intuitive interface. And the idea that we will jump to having our devices being able to read our mind seems like a stretch.

I don't think we'll jump straight to mind-controlled (that sounds weird) devices, but I'm pretty confident we'll be there by 2040. As VR and AR progresses there are great new features like hand tracking, which allows for even higher precision than swiping on your phone. I agree with you, interacting with things through your hands is really intuitive, but I don't think we have unlocked it's full potential.

I remain dubious about VR/AR, because the use cases have remained incredibly narrow. VR has remained a more or less video gaming only niche, and AR is something I interact with once a year or so, mostly to see if furniture would fit.

It’s possible that future technology will make it more useful, but on the current trend it doesn’t seem likely that AR/VR would surpass even my Apple Watch usage, let alone iPhone.

Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by oaiey »

JacobDotVI wrote: post #50
oaiey wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Especially considering, that the printed old-fashioned Newspaper (at least if you select the right one!!!) has a professional writers and a more calm perspective on the world than social media and everything what we consume as media nowadays.

Historically old-fashioned newspapers haven't had a calm perspective. Their headlines were the original clickbait. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

I should replace calm with slowier.

Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by [deleted] »

cdubzzz wrote: post #20

Lately I’ve been wondering if an upcoming generation is going to be more anti-technology, or at least anti-smartphone. I’ve got a 2.5 year old who will occasionally say, “put your phone down, daddy”, or even swipe it from my hand (though we of course try to discourage that, hah) when I’m not paying enough attention to him. As he has grown up and started doing this, it has made me much more aware of my phone time and…

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Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by fredley »

One of the best small changes I made was sleeping in a different room to my phone. We now have a charging station in the study where all our phones and other devices charge. When I wake up I often go through breakfast etc. before going to get my phone.

If you're stil sleeping near your phone, stop it. Alarm clocks are very cheap. You don't need any of the fancy features of your phone's alarm - you'll adapt.

Re: May Sky Challenge

#77

Post by yoz-y »

fredley wrote: post #76

One of the best small changes I made was sleeping in a different room to my phone. We now have a charging station in the study where all our phones and other devices charge. When I wake up I often go through breakfast etc. before going to get my phone. If you're stil sleeping near your phone, stop it. Alarm clocks are very cheap. You don't need any of the fancy features of your phone's alarm - you'll adapt.

I like the idea in theory but I always use my phone to actually fall asleep by listening to some monotonous audio. Before doing this I had extremely hard time falling asleep.

Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by fredley »

yoz-y wrote: post #77
fredley wrote: post #76

One of the best small changes I made was sleeping in a different room to my phone. We now have a charging station in the study where all our phones and other devices charge. When I wake up I often go through breakfast etc. before going to get my phone. If you're stil sleeping near your phone, stop it. Alarm clocks are very cheap. You don't need any of the fancy features of your phone's alarm - you'll adapt.

I like the idea in theory but I always use my phone to actually fall asleep by listening to some monotonous audio. Before doing this I had extremely hard time falling asleep.

That sounds great if it works for you. Obviously don't change your habits if they're not problematic!

For me before I made the change the last thing I'd do at night was look at my phone, the first thing I'd do in the morning was look at my phone, and if I woke in the night I'd look at my phone. Bed is now a mentally distinct place for me, which helps my sleep a lot.

Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by mortenjorck »

phoenixdblack wrote: post #41
cdubzzz wrote: post #20

Lately I’ve been wondering if an upcoming generation is going to be more anti-technology, or at least anti-smartphone. I’ve got a 2.5 year old who will occasionally say, “put your phone down, daddy”, or even swipe it from my hand (though we of course try to discourage that, hah) when I’m not paying enough attention to him. As he has grown up and started doing this, it has made me much more aware of my phone time and…

I don't think smartphones will stay with us for very long. They'll probably be replaced by future technologies less clunky (and yes, I am calling smarthphones clunky) in favor of things like glasses, contacts and implants. I think our children won't be "anti-smartphone" in the same vain as we are not "anti-mainframe"

Mainframes didn’t go away; we just renamed them to “the cloud.”

Smartphones won’t go away. Yes, wearables will replace some use cases – just as personal computers replaced some mainframe use cases and smartphones replaced some personal computer use cases. But smartphones will continue to evolve, just as one can draw a line from time sharing on an IBM 709 to spinning up a Kubernetes cluster.

Re: May Sky Challenge

#80

Post by third_I »

The idea is nice, great even, but...

No but seriously.

Who, in 2020, grabs their phone first thing before hitting a drink, or bathroom, or wash your face or whatever you do when you wake up?

I (37M) find it weird. In 2010, sure, it was all new and I was younger maybe. Nowadays I just don't even have to refrain myself, it could be 10, 20 minutes before I look at any screen. It would usually be my laptop actually.

Am I the exception? I'd think a technologically mature crowd to be much less... dependent, less hooked to their phone. I would think of this being an actual challenge for the mainstream Facebooking / Instagramming / Twittering, but not people like us...

[work notwithstanding, evidently, sometimes we need to grab the phone but that's irrelevant to my observations]

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