Annoying Modern Stuff
June 17th 2008 08:22
We need a burial policy for quite a number of the modern gadgets we now live with. It’s not as if any of them were really necessary.
I came across a blog post by Nick Douglas on Valleywag entitled, The seven most annoying things about the future, and what really struck a chord with me was when he asked: isn't it a bit depressing when everyone walks around with earphones in? I was sitting on the bus this morning, and at least three people out of the seven on board had earphones.
What are they listening to? Music, or motivational tapes, or stories? It doesn’t really matter; it’s the fact that all these people have cut themselves off from communicating with those around them. (I live in a city where people do still talk to those around them.)
And a step up from the plugged-in people are those who tinker with their ipods continually, obviously switching from one track to another, and never really listening to anything completely. It’s a bit of a mania.
Ipods apart, Nick’s article has some things to say about cell phones on planes – aren’t planes
annoying enough to travel on already? – animated billboards, cars in which the GPS system seems to think it’s Hal from 2001, A Space Odyssey. Then there are people who wear cameras (!), speed cameras, and people who go overboard about saving energy, kind of like the Pharisees who tithed their herbs, but refused to look after their parents.
I came across a blog post by Nick Douglas on Valleywag entitled, The seven most annoying things about the future, and what really struck a chord with me was when he asked: isn't it a bit depressing when everyone walks around with earphones in? I was sitting on the bus this morning, and at least three people out of the seven on board had earphones.
What are they listening to? Music, or motivational tapes, or stories? It doesn’t really matter; it’s the fact that all these people have cut themselves off from communicating with those around them. (I live in a city where people do still talk to those around them.)
And a step up from the plugged-in people are those who tinker with their ipods continually, obviously switching from one track to another, and never really listening to anything completely. It’s a bit of a mania.
Ipods apart, Nick’s article has some things to say about cell phones on planes – aren’t planes
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