[Discuss] [OT] Smart Phones

[Rich Pieri]

On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:44:25 -0500
Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:

> You make sense, but at the expense of being sensible.

I counter by asserting that your sense of sensibility is what is
insensible. You've mixed up new tools like electric power with improved
tools like the horseless carriage.

If you look at a thing as a better version of a thing you were using
before then it isn't life-changing. Not really. It's a change,
certainly, but it isn't the kind of significant change that typifies
life-changing events or experiences.

Trading your horse and buggy for an automobile: not life-changing.

Working all hours of the night because some greedy inventor figured out
how to make a light bulb operate 24 hours a day: life-changing.

Trading your wood pulp editions of The Boston Globe for an RSS feed of
the Boston Globe: not life-changing.

Using FaceTime on your iThing as your primary contact with your infant
children: life-changing.

And I'll be laughing hysterically when said infant starts identifying
the glossy rectangle as "mommy" or "daddy".

-- 
Rich P.