I Hate Your ipad… Get A Life

Wonderful read by on old writing busy from the Far East. You forget the importance of conversation and wonder why we have such disfunctional lives. It’s all the distractions…

From Collin Piprell’s Lastest Blog post:

Excerpt:

In Thailand, the iPad mostly remains a rumor of digital utopia on the other side of the world. But travelers to those distant parts are beginning to arrive back here with their über-gadgets.

And they are harbingers of epidemic social change. These carriers of the current Digital Grail—and soon, I suspect, they’ll include everybody in the world with a few hundred dollars to spend—behave as though they carry new-born children, and they’re prone to dropping these items on the coffee table in the middle of a party, or on the dinner table, and saying, “Look! Isn’t it cute?”

And it isn’t as though you can ignore an iPad. Not with its vivid colors and fascinating images flashing this and that. IPads don’t launch an arc of piss into your soup, but they’re just about as welcome on the dinner table nevertheless.

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