Companies like Apple and Facebook won't be bold or flexible enough to lead this. It will be a case of "if the people lead, the leaders will follow." Probably yielding some new leaders in the process.
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Prediction: There will be an immune response to smartphone addiction, driven by the people currently in their late teens and early 20s.
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Yeah using VR headsets all the time
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Exactly. In the words of
@debbiemillman , "We're not addicted to the smartphones or the apps. We're addicted to the human social connection they facilitate."
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I can imagine a near future where younger generations stereotype older generations as having their heads buried in screens and their social lives entangled with online services.
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Could be, but I think we have a lot of work to do on our built environment for that to come true.
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Prediction: the addiction, while spurred by awful SM algos hacking human habits, will turn into a dependency much like how we can’t live without the web now. The flow of ideas and concepts is not something humans will relinquish. BCI products will be the new phone.
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Yes.
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I agree about the response but disagree about the group. What I'm seeing is the 25-35 age group conferring antibodies upon their children, while remaining infected themselves.
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Same view here - for high income / white collar families.
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