They’ll get you in the end
They say you can lead a horse to water but can’t make it drink. A way round that might be to take the water to the horse and just wait for it to give in.I don’t own a smartphone; all I can do with my phone is make calls and send and receive text messages. It’s not because I’m cheap that I won’t buy a smartphone, it is because I can foresee the consequences that would inevitably follow from my getting one and I don’t like what I (fore)see.
When I am at home I can’t stay away from my computer. Even when I am busy I keep stopping to check on something or look something up. When I leave the house it is a relief to get away from the damned thing. The last thing I would want to do is take it with me when I go out, but, if I had a smartphone, that, in effect, is what I would be doing.
Last week the company I work for told us that all the drivers were to be issued with smartphones.
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Any song I could think of was with me for the asking.
I didn't have to buy it, or have a tape, or have it on a CD stuffed in a cd changer in the trunk.
I just had to say the magic summoning words and my car played the music.
How amazed would my friends have been by this in the 90's?
3 four hundred plus mile round trips to the airport picking up and dropping off family this month.
Google maps calling out directions, letting me see my progress effortlessly, warning me of speed traps, warning me of slowdowns from accidents or just traffic, and offering alternate routes.
The last trip went quicker then I expected and without the need for a bit of planning, I extended the trip across a nearby state line to pick up some a beer from a very good brewery that doesn't ship out of it's home state.
Burying one's head in the phone during dinner is a choice.
Filming instead of experiencing something is a choice.
Refusing to eat breakfast, because you might guzzle the maple syrup directly from the jug is a flawed solution.
"I just had to say the magic summoning words and my car played the music."...
Obvs I can connect my phone to my car's audio but having to fumble around finding YouTube/Spotify tracks I want to play while driving puts me off ..
It can be done with voice command??
These people they want to track every move you make.
Welcome to the new world.
For someone who doesn't like text messaging well..well...well.. You're gonna be a changed man now!
See..... it's not so bad.