{"id":2202,"date":"2016-10-01T18:17:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T18:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2202"},"modified":"2016-10-01T18:17:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T18:17:40","slug":"gtf-off-your-damn-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2016\/10\/gtf-off-your-damn-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"GTF Off your damn phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ian was writing four years ago about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2012\/06\/the-cigarette-of-this-century\/258092\/\" target=\"_blank\">the cigarette of this century<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The point is not whether technologies like smartphones actually make us more or less connected to one another&#8211;that&#8217;s a cheap, pat question whose answer is best left to trade books and TED talks. The point is that technologies like the Blackberry change our social fabric in ways that we often cannot see, and therefore cannot fully reason about. McLuhan argued that <strong>technologies<\/strong> <strong>can never be fully grasped in the present, but only after we establish some distance from them<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am doing that as much as I can. It annoys me because it\u2019s easy to not have your phone around you to look at and yet, I struggle. Which is weak. There\u2019s always something to look at right? No. That\u2019s what completely scares me: we often look at our phones for no reason, pulling to refresh some content we already saw etc. We\u2019re completely in the slot machine psychology here.<\/p>\n<p>Recently I forced myself to have dinner without looking at my phone, without having it with me in the kitchen. It\u2019s weird but it\u2019s fantastic I actually enjoy my food far more. I feel much more satisfied.<\/p>\n<p>Someone might say that reading books does the same disservice to your neck except that we don\u2019t read books and never did for hours everyday like we do with phones. The convenience is right here, one minute that becomes five minutes at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Like smoking, I\u2019m not against it but let\u2019s have some self control\/respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian was writing four years ago about the cigarette of this century. The point is not whether technologies like smartphones actually make us more or less connected to one another&#8211;that&#8217;s a cheap, pat question whose answer is best left to trade books and TED talks. The point is that technologies like the Blackberry change our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2203,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions\/2203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}