evolve or die
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“Note how Micki is briefly checking her device and texting in the middle of dinner. This is perfectly acceptable (and even expected) behavior in today’s modern highly interconnected multitasking culture. Get used to it. Evolve or die.
We did not evolve greater cognitive capacity to have it sit idle due to obsolete socio-cultural conventions.”
Willo O'Brien published this at 7:57 am in: Uncategorized ::
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Hmmm… i must be from the old school, Ms Manners camp. It irks me to see this going on at dinner. Maybe I should also allow phone solicitors to call me or watch VCast® during communal repas. Maybe I’ll become a phone solicitor and make my calls at the only “free time” I have which is at the dinner table. Oh the collapse of society…
Sure, I can see how someone taking a gander and peck at their pda/smartphone is annoying in a social engadgement.
However, I anxiously wait the death of the over-rated “MySpace-caliber” Sidekick. Everytime I even hear the clack-clack of someone just giving their inbox a gander, it makes my skin crawl.
And I’m surrounded by them here at work!
Long live the Multi-touch.
J.
Doing this kind of thing will be part of comedies looking back at this decade. Along with ribbon magnets on cars. That is, if there’s any time left after the jokes about the Bush Administration.
acceptable my arse! the look of scorn on the face of the dude to your immediate left pretty much says it all – heh heh. when i make a dinner date with my friends, i commit to giving them my full attention during that time. i expect the same of them. it’s the whole point of making plans with someone, and there’s a little something called etiquette that some people seem to have forgotten. greater cognitive capacity doesn’t give us the right to be overtly rude to our friends. or maybe the bigger issue is – do any of us really have true friends anymore?