They Will Call Smart People "Luddites"
Two days ago I wrote about Norway kicking social control media to the curb. It's a smart country where I had many close friends [1, 2]; it's not a bunch of "smelly" "hippies" or "Luddites". The government of Norway reached the correct conclusions. Moments ago we saw (via admfubar in IRC) this report in an IEEE-affiliated Web site:
"Burned out by smartphones," it says, "young people are choosing flip phones, cameras and MP3 players instead..."
I recently reverted back to a Discman. It cost me literally one pound and it works. Just add headphones. With standard AA batteries, I can recharge them using equipment I inherited from my grandfather in the mid 1990s.
DRM? What's that?
Streaming? Come again?
For some people, there's this "awkward" realisation that any wristwatch can tell the time as accurately as a so-called 'smart' 'phone' and not require a daily recharge (a good watch with a good battery needn't have its batteries changed except once in a few years; some watches are self-charging, using wrist/hand movement).
Is society "seeing the light"? Even if just some crosscut or small portion of society can appreciate the value of physical cash, watches, PMPs and so on... we have a chance - a mere prospect - of convincing all the rest... over time [1, 2]. █
