Interesting technology, terrible marketing. I wonder how "social" the culture really is with that group.
I could be on my own here, but the author is right - if a bus stop conversation ever occurred like that, it would be a sad day for humanity.
I could be on my own here, but the author is right - if a bus stop conversation ever occurred like that, it would be a sad day for humanity.
As people with strong technology backgrounds we are usually the first to say that it is the answer to some daily pain or a solution to a problem. But technology can't replace everything - and true face-to-face interpersonal relationships I believe is one of them.
"Moving into devices" is a real-world cop-out. We tune into Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and HN to a degree more than we should and that becomes our reality more than the real world. If we started i-chatting with people we could, with less mental effort, talk to like humans have been for thousands of years we may actually learn something we didn't search for.