I know that's true for me. It seems so foreign to me to watch a movie or read a book set before the 1990s, where someone have to park their car to try to find a phone booth in order to make a phone call.
On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 9:52 AM Steven A Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > > > Steve writes: > > > > < It is also hard to give up "convenience", once habituated toit. I > can > > barely imagine tying up a hardwired phone line to get 300 or 1200bps > > internet service today... I think I'd probably do without somehow. I > > once walked, ran, rode my bike miles and miles to get where I needed > to > > go (school, work, etc.) but now that I have been conditioned to > jumping > > in a heated/AC car and driving 60-80 mph with a good quality sound > > system and dozens of radio stations, hundreds of CDs ripped to the > hard > > drive and Bluetooth audio to allow me to chat with family and > friends or > > do some business or listen to a podcast, I'd have a hard time even > going > > back to driving 55 or having to leave my windows down to keep from > > feeling a little hot on a warm day, much less live with my own > singing > > or a small handful of scratchy AM stations. > > > > > There's no need to fall back to a 300 baud. Even a small community of > ~ 20k people can build a fiber optic network -- an example is my dad's > town. There's no need to drive 55 mph or even drive. High speed rail in > China and Japan exceed 200 mph. This is the shortsightedness and lack of > imagination in individualism: To deny or not even notice that many people > have the same exact needs you do. > > I'm not suggesting we need to fall back to any of those things, just > reminding myself that my expectations tend to grow monotonically but > conveniences do not, they are often herky-jerky. Technology for the > most part is a "ratchet", barring an apocalypse, we don't generally > lose or forget what we have learned technologically, but we DO seem to > forget (and have a hard time relearning) the social/cultural things we > apparently once knew. > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC> > http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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