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Khoi Vinh: Follow Up to “Built to Not Last” (Subtraction.com)
Khoi Vinh: Follow Up to “Built to Not Last” (Subtraction.com)
It’s true, there’s not necessarily a business case to do this, but that is not the only thing Apple will be judged on in the decades to come. And that’s what I’m talking about here: how will future generations look back at Apple, and by extension its customers? Did we all live our lives by more than just the bottom line? Or were the late twentieth and early twenty-first century the decades in which we irrevocably decided that everything should be disposable (or even recyclable) after just two or three years?
·subtraction.com·
Khoi Vinh: Follow Up to “Built to Not Last” (Subtraction.com)
NYTimes.com: Your Brain on Computers — Attached to Technology and Paying a Price
NYTimes.com: Your Brain on Computers — Attached to Technology and Paying a Price
This guy seems to have some family issues that his addiction to incoming data via screens is severely aggravating. I experience, on a smaller scale, some of the problems outlined in this article, and, though none of this is particularly new to me, it's frightening to see these habits taken down the slippery slope. Should all of us, and especially people like Kord, make a concerted effort to make screens less a part of our lives, lest we lose our humanity? Or is trying to avoid technology's increasing integration with our every second just being traditionally biased and counter-progressive? I think there is a middle ground where one can be hooked in and focused on doing work while still not ignoring ones' children. Food for thought.
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NYTimes.com: Your Brain on Computers — Attached to Technology and Paying a Price