Re: Comment on Design Ethicist Tristan Harris on How to Fight Back Against Your Smartphone (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

Phagocyte?  Pretty sure that is spelling correction gone wrong.

I agree that this is not "never before seen".  Regular, ol' computers,
especially those with multiuser video game capability, have always
suffered this problem.  The real issue is that, with the power of a
computer in the palm of your hands, the problem is more wide-spread than
it ever has been.

The other question is whether this is a gateway drug to heroin.  Who
knows.

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 15:18:10 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 >  > From: "Disqus" <http://www.disqus.net/~notifications>
 >  > Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 22:09:53 -0000
 >  > 
 >  > MikeCassady wrote, in response to Noelle:
 >  > 
 >  > I find dystopian thinking what I do when my imagination is suffering a "
 >  > out."  I Agee with Harris that dealing with IPhones in the hands of 
 >  > children is "alarming" in the right way, but not unprecedented, "never 
 >  > before seen".  That's rubbish.  The commercial people operate on instincts 
 >  > appropriate to the base level they say is required by their fiduciary 
 >  > responsibilities to investors, i.e., you and me with our children as we 
 >  > contribute to our pension funds.  What Harris is presupposing is that it's 
 >  > appropriate to see this matter in its present somewhat silly permutation (
 >  > talking to screens) as a collective matter in need of a collective response. 
 >  >  I am adult enough to weigh the advantages of having access to the is 
 >  > technology to the disadvantages. In fact, if we just focus on the content 
 >  > being shared, or processed and reprocessed, cerebral melt-down appears to be 
 >  > not far off.  But, in the spirit of Mcluhanâ??the message is in the messageâ?
 >  > ?what is being shared in the most import
 >  >  ant sense is the "form": intimate and direct ways of peer communication 
 >  >  opens new prospects for working thoughts and opinions in a more nuanced and 
 >  >  testable way.  With a bit of critical attention and independence, we can 
 >  >  give our own personal shape to how technology serves us.  Must I recall to 
 >  >  attention that Donald Trump wants less room for open content and discussion 
 >  >  so that he can make deals in smokey rooms, behind closed doors,, where 
 >  >  power is a guy thing and happens using lies, dirty tricks and arm twisting. 
 >  >   An attack on Korea is much less likely if consensus arbitration is 
 >  >  wide-open and prepared to phagocyte the small minded antics of "the guys."