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Consume Smartphones: What's Been The Overall Effect of Smartphones on Society?

posted 14 days ago by bluewhiteandred on scored.co (+0 / -0 / )

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c/stoptech post: https://scored.co/c/StopTech/p/1ARdD8U9vG/

I was thinking about this, I thought the last major technological development before AI was the smartphone

It seems to have had a real chilling effect on people, they're afraid to make mistakes in public or do as much because they're always being watched and possibly recorded

Addictive content is served quickly on the phones and things like social media and dating apps became popularly consumed on phones, which have dramatically affected relationships and how people perceive themselves

So what overall impact do you think smartphones have had on us, how might we mitigate some of the damage done by phones, or what do you think of what will replace smartphone technology and how much worse it could be potentially (AR glasses, brain implants, etc.)?

VolanteEternity on scored.co

14 days ago 6 points (+0 / -0 / ) 1 child

They've all but killed delayed gratification. There's no more putting work, time and effort into something. It's at your fingertips with a few seconds search. Knowledge almost seems mundane to those who were born into this.

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PurestEvil on scored.co

14 days ago 3 points (+0 / -0 / ) 1 child

Oh, don't worry about knowledge. People are still retarded and ignorant, even though they *could* access said information within minutes.

el_hoovy on scored.co

14 days ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / ) 1 child

yeah, i don't buy the argument that knowledge no longer matters or means anything. all we have proven is that the average person is too stupid to even desire knowledge, not that providing it faster than 3 hours of searching in a library somehow worsens things. the only reason "google-fu" exists as a joke term is because most people do not possess it and can't bring themselves to actually use the internet to learn anything.

14 days ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )

I don't think this disagrees with anything I said. People don't appreciate instant access to knowledge AND they are too stupid to use it. Both can be true. In fact the two mindsets seem to go hand in hand.