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Re: May Sky Challenge

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mantap wrote: post #97
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even without any particularly futuristic hardware, I'm of the belief that someone could design a smartwatch which does 80% of what I use a smartphone for. We primarily need better voice recognition (where better = basically flawless), and more power-efficient CPUs and radios. A smartwatch can give directions, read and reply to messages, look up information, display schedules, and take pictures—all without taking my a…

How would you get any privacy? I don't think other people on the train are going to be happy with me dictating "eggplant emoji smirk emoji" to a wearable.

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Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by ASalazarMX »

Every day I look up at the sky and landscape before looking down at my phone. It doesn't make any significant difference in my day.

But whatever that makes people lives more varied in this isolation is fine, I guess.

Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by munificent »

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 think (hope) that future generations will look at how we consume media on smartphones today the way we look at cigarette smoking now. An unhealthy stimulant that many of us are addicted to and struggle to escape.

Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by munificent »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #96
shlant wrote: post #12

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> I don't remember my parents having this problem with their newspaper. They did look at the newspaper before the sky every morning. This seems to be a pretty common comparison, especially as a reply to older generations remarking on everyone always being on their phones. Kind of a meme at this point[1][2]. It really makes me think that not a lot of thought/concern is given to the major difference between print media…

> There is no interaction between the reader and the newspaper - it's a passive information source. On the other hand, people are using smartphones primarily to talk to other people . With IMs, not voice calls, but they talk with each other nonetheless. That's about as opposite of antisocial as you can have.

> On the other hand, people are using smartphones primarily to talk to other people.

I don't believe that's true. I thinnk most smartphone time for most users is spent passively consuming broadcast social media: scrolling through Instagram photos and Facebook posts.

Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by munificent »

lagilogi wrote: post #4

I cannot see the sky from my apartment. So If have to wait until I leave for work or other reasons. I don't remember my parents having this problem with their newspaper. They did look at the newspaper before the sky every morning.

The key difference is that you could finish the newspaper.

Imagine how different Instagram would if after ten minutes of scrolling you reached a point where it said "That's it. No more photos until tomorrow!"

(You may remember that Facebook used to work that way with their chronological feed. As soon as you saw a familiar post, you knew you were done. There's a reason they killed that feature.)

Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by munificent »

alex_young wrote: post #95

For everyone concerned about your alarm, try existing without one! I gave up alarms over a decade ago, and I never wake up late. You have a great internal clock in your own head and the subtle stress of knowing an alarm is pending is horrible for actually getting restful sleep. Don’t believe me? Try it on a weekend or two, or if you have a week with few early events, set a resolve to do some task by a specific time a…

My experience is that if I have an event that I need to be ready for and don't set an alarm my brain switches into panic "Oh shit, I overslept mode!" and I wake up way too early, repeatedly, and end up with a terrible night's sleep. In fact, I get that whenever I travel for work even though I do set an alarm because the disruption to my routine makes me afraid I failed to set it correctly.

What I find helps the most for getting restful sleep is to do this at night:

1. Set an alarm for when I want to wake up.

2. Go to bed at a time that makes my sleep duration an integer multiple of my sleep cycle. For me, that's around 3.5 hours. I'll feel more rested with 7 hours of sleep than 9 because at 9 hours I'm woken from deep sleep.

3. When I get in bed, mentally how much time between there is between now and my alarm going off. Deliberately tell myself, "My alarm is going off in X hours."

Setting an alarm cures my "I overslept!" anxiety. The other two points help align my alarm to my sleep cycle so I'm in shallow sleep when it goes off.

Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by jschwartzi »

apocalypstyx wrote: post #72
phoenixdblack wrote: post #41

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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 Gl…

Qwerty is great for phone keyboards because it puts all the letters for one word nearby one thumb. And I can swipe words without leaving one or the other half of the keyboard. For all that it was about physical limitations of typewriters it's actually a good design for swipable keyboards too because it limits the size of the stroke, reducing the number of characters that could be part of the path.

Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by LynxInLA »

munificent wrote: post #105
lagilogi wrote: post #4

I cannot see the sky from my apartment. So If have to wait until I leave for work or other reasons. I don't remember my parents having this problem with their newspaper. They did look at the newspaper before the sky every morning.

The key difference is that you could finish the newspaper. Imagine how different Instagram would if after ten minutes of scrolling you reached a point where it said "That's it. No more photos until tomorrow!" (You may remember that Facebook used to work that way with their chronological feed. As soon as you saw a familiar post, you knew you were done. There's a reason they killed that feature.)

Isn't that what happens with Instagram? It says "you've caught up" on my phone when I reach photos I've already seen.

Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by komali2 »

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 think my generation (millenial) and the generation after (zoomer?) is explicitly anti-television on average, compared to at least the 2 generations that came before us. Sure, Netflix, but I have no friends that engage in the act of coming home from work, sitting down, and letting Comcast and Fox/ABC/whoever decide what they'll be watching in 5 minute slices between 8 minute commercial breaks (or that's how it felt the last time I tried watching TV). I think that's an important development in increasing user freedom, the simple act of choosing what content we fill our leisure time with, and moving away from a barrage of consumerist propaganda.

Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by komali2 »

frogpelt wrote: post #49

I love this idea but I found this part hilarious: "You can join the event on facebook, so we can keep in touch, and see how popular this gets! Invite your friends, spread the word!" The reason people look at their screens first thing in the morning is to see what everybody else is doing.

Speak for yourself, I look to see how much money I lost that morning with bad option bets
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