Cell phones: Is a day of reckoning coming?

I can control having it with me and having it charged.

And if my daughter or wife want me by their side when they are hurt, I am going to make every effort to be there. If I have a tool to check and see if they are OK and safe, I am going to look at once or twice and hour. Not blow it off until the end of the day.

 

Understood. I think we can all come up with resulting negative consequences.
I'm just saying there could be unthought-of positive, long-term consequences. I don't know what they are, but that doesn't make them any less possible.

 

This goes to what I often say regarding human growth hormone, gene replacement and other biological engineering: If we agree on evolution being real and essential to species preservation, why should we assume that it will happen without encouragement? Maybe we have evolved enough that we can push our own evolution in ways previous species couldn't.

 

stop trying to explain a change in society to people who appear to not have been hugged by their mothers enough, sonner.

i mean christ, if i have to stare at you, AND ONLY YOU, the entire time we're eating dinner, or whatever, i don't want to eat dinner with you ... and that's a fact. life moves on beyond the little box that you call life. get over it.

i'd have dinner with you any time, sonner.

 

Human exceptionalism? You're giving us an awful lot of credit. Other species all eventually go extinct, right?

Basically this smartphone thing has the human race barreling toward extinction. Other than that, we're gonna be juuust fine ...

 

I can never remember exactly how it went, but ESPN had a commercial in the 1990s that was about getting sports updates instantly.

If I remember correctly, someone was lamenting over all the instant news, instant coffee, instant pudding... now we all want instant updates.

But my favorite part of that commercial was how it ended. The guy stopped his complaining, and then added "but I like my instant pudding."

I can't find that on youtube or anywhere. Might have been an ad for ESPNews.

I am all for living in the present moment. Hell, my girlfriend not only gets mad when I start messing with my phone, she gets mad if I am not making direct eye contact with her during our (her) long conversations. Man, if my eyes start drifting to the TV or around a restaurant while the yapping is going to town, I am soon in the doghouse.

VB

 

I got a kick-ass chili recipe, too.

 

Hold out for the brisket, Sonner.

 

I mean, if you have brisket at the table, I might as well eat alone. That's no time for talking.

 

1. Why would anyone consider a house an investment? It's a shitty investment.

2. If you can live without a car, what's the problem? Maybe we're smart enough to not drop extra $ on overinflated car prices if required to own one.

 

That's cool.

But that's not exactly the same as excusing yourself to check the inning-by-inning updates of the Nats game in the middle of dinner, which is where this discussion kind of started.

And the question was, "Why would you be enraged (at yourself or someone else) if you happened to find out about a kid's injury an hour or so later than it happened."

Would you really beat yourself up with guilt? Or want to beat up an usher or someone who had told you you had to turn off your phone?