90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles (2009)
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#2The monolith
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#3The system works
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#4It's the lack of interesting new information that drives humans to look into these portable screens. Humans aren't cats to be content with the 4 walls around them.
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#5So many ads. This site has become cancer.
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#6It's the lack of interesting new information that drives humans to look into these portable screens. Humans aren't cats to be content with the 4 walls around them.
I'm not sure cats are content with the 4 walls around them, either. (Plenty of cats prefer the outdoors, even if they sleep inside.)
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#7I thought this was funny, but the serious point behind it is that we're only beginning to understand the negative effects that screen time has on humans.
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#8The name of the supra-FAANG, all encompasing global corporate monolith in my post-mcluhanist-super-late-stage-capitalist dystopia novel: Rectangle Group...Ahhh, the ancient Greeks worst nightmare ><
Re: 90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles (2009)
#9In the old days, the rectangles didn't even glow. In fact, they even stained our fingers black sometimes.
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#10It's the lack of interesting new information that drives humans to look into these portable screens. Humans aren't cats to be content with the 4 walls around them.
I'm not sure cats are content with the 4 walls around them, either. (Plenty of cats prefer the outdoors, even if they sleep inside.)
Well yeah - What do cats do? Hunt little critters and patrol/defend territory. It is difficult to get suitable environmental enrichment indoors for something that can't read.