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Originally posted by Sion
are electronic devices the bane of modern intellectual growth or just fun to play with?
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so you're asking if they're mindless or simply mindless entertainment?
i think the application has alot to do with this judgement. pda's that hold all of your address book information, account balances, and other vital info create a convenience that encourages one's energies to be spent elsewhere than just keeping track of one's loose ends. graphing calculators with near-instantaneous functions that used to take engineers and scientists days to work out by hand. mobile technology that allows one to stay in contact with others regardless of their global location - AND figure out exactly where they are within metres.
on the other hand...
who here has played witha tamagotchi? howsabout spending an entire day (not just a couple hours, a whole damn day) on that playstation gaming marathon? how many people have spent hours texting people who were no more than three feet away via im's or mobile phones?
for all of the amazing advances in technology, there are ups and downs. practical uses and leaps of imagination that far outreach what was once possible... as well as creating more mindless enternainment that do very little to further society but do much to keep their faces glued to a screen and their money flowing to consumer electronics companies. you decide whether we're getting the short end of the stick.
oyeah... the lint was pretty sparse today. wore an older shirt, so there wasn't as much to rub off.
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