It's a lot like how younger people use smartphones. ![:)]( "Smile")
About an entire global generation has been conditioned to smartphone ecosystems. Just over a year to go to the 20th anniversary of the iPhone. Everything just works. Free apps for almost anything. There's always the back button if something wrong was selected.
They are not approaching Pico stuff like a garage full of tools where one is responsible for one's own life and limbs. A handyman's garage -- that's Stone Age. Older hobbies are no longer desired by most, because smartphone leisure is always, _always_ rewarding and app makers are constantly tweaking stuff to make it more rewarding to keep you attached or addicted to their ecosystem. The addiction of easy "accomplishments".
A garage full of sharp tools and one quickly learns to improve decision-making. How do we detach them from easy, no-brainer leisure processes that smartphone ecosystems programs into their brains? (That's one reason why I like to just point the way and not present all answers as if on a silver platter.) Varoufakis calls it technofeudalism. But here I'll just do simple things like promoting good problem-solving processes.
About an entire global generation has been conditioned to smartphone ecosystems. Just over a year to go to the 20th anniversary of the iPhone. Everything just works. Free apps for almost anything. There's always the back button if something wrong was selected.
They are not approaching Pico stuff like a garage full of tools where one is responsible for one's own life and limbs. A handyman's garage -- that's Stone Age. Older hobbies are no longer desired by most, because smartphone leisure is always, _always_ rewarding and app makers are constantly tweaking stuff to make it more rewarding to keep you attached or addicted to their ecosystem. The addiction of easy "accomplishments".
A garage full of sharp tools and one quickly learns to improve decision-making. How do we detach them from easy, no-brainer leisure processes that smartphone ecosystems programs into their brains? (That's one reason why I like to just point the way and not present all answers as if on a silver platter.) Varoufakis calls it technofeudalism. But here I'll just do simple things like promoting good problem-solving processes.
Statistics: Posted by katak255 — Sun Nov 09, 2025 2:00 am