People are losing less and less appreciation for the everyday, for the moments that make up their very lives, constantly aware of the supposed opportunity cost of their present circumstance courtesy of the constant array of social and emotional signals from an ever proliferating cast of the usual digital suspects. You can see the boredom, the sense of embarressment for their own common banal lives, right in their eyes. The sad part is that the lived life is the one thing that can never be replicated, reviewed, rebroadcast, rendered- that all the video and media in the world can't begin to replace the real moment, with people, things, emotions, attention and care. This makes me hesitate for a moment as to whether I would temporally prefer the Wild West or the Wide Web.
Haha, as an addendum, apparently Microsoft agrees with me. At least somewhat. I'm not sure I get the argument that because phones have become so intrusive, you should buy another phone, but I get the point.
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