zlacker

I think you're exactly right, and the groundwork is being laid today by the standards society is setting for everybody. People will assume a lack of phone or the presence of a phone but lack of usage / content on it, makes you guilty of some sort of crime similar to owning a burner phone.

Tell somebody you use your phone less than 10 minutes a day and look at their face change.

>>sjw987+(OP)
> Tell somebody you use your phone less than 10 minutes a day and look at their face change.

While not less than 10 minutes per day for me, but I was having this argument on reddit over the iPhone Air - people couldn't fathom that there's someone out there that is not on their phone 24/7, and doesn't use their phone as their main computing device.

I clock in at under an hour screen time most days. It's the least ergonomic device for me to do anything remotely serious. Can't even stand typing on a virtual keyboard. My laptop is, and will remain, my main interface to the net and communication with others.

You'd think I was some kind of weird hermit luddite because of it.

>>sjw987+(OP)
Scroogled, by Cory Doctorow comes to mind.

>>theweb+Lv
I've found the divide between people who switched to using a phone full time and people who still use physical peripheral based computers (even for recreational activity) is generally linked with whether the person is a digital productive/consumerist type person.

Nobody is coding or writing anything longer than an email or social media post on a virtual keyboard.

The average screen time for younger people borders on 7 hours. It's almost a third of the day or 40% of the woken day for most people. I still can't wrap my head around how that can even be possible, but then I see in public most people you look at in any given moment are reading, watching or sending/sharing something.

If the conspiracy theorists are right, the tech industry created a surveillance system beyond their wildest dreams.