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The other day Ryan calls me from work and says that three companies are coming to his office with special smart phone deals and asks if we want to take advantage of them. I gave it some serious thought for about 30 seconds and then said no way. It isn’t worth being available all the time, having more interruptions in my relationship with my kid during the day, and it isn’t worth the money. I had put minutes back on my cheap cancer brick of a phone and still hadn’t used it in over a week. Why did I need to make my already fast life faster by introducing more technology?
A few days later Ryan sent this article to me, and we are both happy staying in the non-smart phone world: Why Do I Have a Smartphone If I Don't Want to Talk to Anyone? And I am guilty of hiding behind email – I need to pick up the phone more.
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Well, if the Arab Spring is any indication, there are some situations where smart phones can be quite beneficial. Basically, it's an alternative information sharing network that can't be switched off as easily as the local internet. However, I've seen some people at Mozilla Festival networking regular phones - the presentation was called "Smart uses for dumb phones" - through a computer connected to one of them, I think, or some such. I am watching this sort of things - they could not make it happen without a computing device of some sort, usually a smartphone: http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution
Posted by: Maria Droujkova | November 23, 2011 at 07:49 AM