I’d be very interested in hearing arguments why this actually wouldn’t be that big of a deal.
It won’t be a big deal because smartphone was not a big deal. People still wake up, go to work, eat, sleep, sit hours in front of a screen—TV, smartphone, AR, who cares. No offense to Steve Jobs, but if the greatest technological achievement of your age is the popularization of the smartphone, exciting is about the last adjective I’d describe it with.
Speaking of Black Mirror, I find the show to be a pretty accurate representation of the current intellectual Zeitgeist (not the future it depicts; I mean the show itself) - pretentious, hollow, lame, desperate to signal profundity through social commentary.
It won’t be a big deal because smartphone was not a big deal. People still wake up, go to work, eat, sleep, sit hours in front of a screen—TV, smartphone, AR, who cares. No offense to Steve Jobs, but if the greatest technological achievement of your age is the popularization of the smartphone, exciting is about the last adjective I’d describe it with.
Speaking of Black Mirror, I find the show to be a pretty accurate representation of the current intellectual Zeitgeist (not the future it depicts; I mean the show itself) - pretentious, hollow, lame, desperate to signal profundity through social commentary.