From jackoverfull@gmail.com Sun Feb 17 08:21:27 2013
Subject:Re: OT: Times change

I would like to point out that technology is not inherently bad or good, it depends on how we use it. It allows us to chat all around the world with ease, it surely helps learning (now you can spend much more time studying the material instead of trying to acquire it, for example) and so on. Personally I've always hated my ("dumb")phones, a badly designed piece of technology that was partly useful and partly an annoyance, in 2009 I bought an used iPhone and I'm still using it a lot. Also helps to get away from staying in front of a computer on a chair actually, my body thanks (my eyes less so, perhaps).

I can agree that 99% of today's TV is trash and manipulation but even that could be used in much better ways.

Il giorno 17/feb/2013, alle ore 16.45, Brian Fuller ha scritto:

> I'm 39 and my dad has played music since the 60's in various bands over the
> years(he's pretty much got the same theory about destroying the middle class
> and that it's been going on for a long time) and I have seen exactly what
> you're talking about.I have two daughters one that's 21 and another that
> will soon be 13 and to see what they're spoon fed through media, etc. is
> really disturbing. I think my 21 year old is beyond repair she's an IPhone
> addict and I do mean addict. It's her entire life in the palm of her hand I
> think she would damn near kill someone if they tried to take her phone. I'm
> trying to keep my youngest away from a cell phone as long as possible. I
> guess the part that is so upsetting is that I think it's gone on for so long
> I don't think we can stop it.

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