FWIW, my intuition is that to the extent that there's a harmful gaming/social media node dominating, it's actually downwind of the dating apps & the culture that's been forming around them for more than a decade
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flat surface and then shatter on the ground. Which is why it was not a mistake that you would see shattered iPhone screens everywhere ... it is what they designed, and why everyone has to put a case covering up their beautiful slippery iPhone body.
Apparently they felt it was more important for it to feel like a precious gemstone than be a functional device, and judging by sales maybe they were right ... in a sense they design for the flaws in the human personality.
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I'm a fan of your particular flavor of tech pessimism to a degree that surprises even me
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I think of myself as optimistic about technology in the future, I'm just realistic about what is going on right now. Almost everyone is cargo-culting and running off momentum generated in the past. Once this momentum runs out and it all grinds to a halt, we'll realize what has
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been going on and start fixing things. But it may take a long time, and it may not happen predominantly in the USA, depending on whether or not we fix our social issues. That said, I have been to a lot of places at this point, and I'm not sure I can think of anywhere that would
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be *better* than the USA at recovering from this. So I guess it's possible that we just won't. Which is, I suppose, the worrisome part.
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