Also i feel like devoting our attention to a screen in our field of vision is going to mean sacrificing our attention in other areas ie. not listening to someone talking to you in front of your face, bumping into a pole etc.

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Like look at the cellphone. It’s truly a bloody brilliant invention. It allows us to keep in touch with friends and family when out. Of course though, in business, many companies quickly started giving employees a cellphone so that the employee has no excuse for not answering a call when out. Same with smartphones. Fracking lovely that I can check my email on the go. But then companies now expect me to be connected all the time and to respond to everything in “a timely manner”. By that they mean immediately or within a couple hours, even on the weekend.

Dunno if I made any sense up above. But my underachieving, lazy arse doesn’t like working more than I need to and I don’t like the “live to work” or work-work-work mentality that exists in corporate culture in the US. It’s like, what’s really happened to quality time if you’re on vacation but have to be “check in” to the office?

So I understand a little freaking out because it means that, while the technology is cooler than cool, Lord knows what uses companies will come up with for it and I worry about how much their uses for it it will eat into more of our personal time away from work.

At least, that’s my take on it.

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