60 Minutes has posted its two-part interview with Walter Isaacson, the authorized biographer of Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs, which aired at 7 p.m.October 23, 2011.
http://mashable.com/2011/10/23/steve-jobs-walter-isaacson-60-minutes-video/
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
Why I Dumped My iPhone—And I'm Not Going Back
This guy, Sam Graham-Felsen, wrote the enclosed article about why he dumped his iPhone. http://www.good.is/post/why-i-dumped-my-iphone-and-why-i-m-not-going-back/
The following is my immediate response upon reading said article:
Wow, Forget this guy. Walden's Pond? I'd like to throw him in Walden's pond.
This guy should have read Socrates' quote "everything in moderation." That was the philosophy I took when I realized I was staying home to watch TV on my DVR instead of going out with friends because I had recorded too many shows. I put myself on a TV diet where I just narrowed down the amount of TV I was watching. Case Closed. I didn't become one of these jerks that goes around saying the TV is bad for you or that TV is evil.
I don't even understand the point of his article. Was it just his chance to tell everybody how much of an idiot he is?
Plus I hate all this anti-technology crap. I'm a big fan of the idea of the singularity and one thing that's been ingrained in my head from reading about the singularity is that everything around us is technology so the whole "less" technology stuff is such crap. On a related note, I always love the realization I come to when I watch a period piece movie where they show some medieval king living in a castle with servants (like the recent movie Your Highness). I always remind myself that I'm living a more luxurious life that this king just because I have air conditioning, access to refrigerated food and a motorized vehicle. So forget people who can't handle technology.
"had it made my life better?" Hell Yeah the iPhone has made my life better. This sort of reminds me of this Sam Kinison joke about Charles Manson where he yells, like Sam yells, "GLAD TO SEE YOU CAN HANDLE YOUR HIGH" in response to learning Manson just killed an entire family while on drugs. So I guess this guy just couldn't handle the power of having access to the whole wide world in his hands.
There was a similar article Technology Is The New Smoking which made the point that "checking facebook" has become an addiction similar to smoking and that abstaining from technology can sometimes feel that “itching like a crackhead” http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/25/technology-is-the-new-smoking/
The following is my immediate response upon reading said article:
Wow, Forget this guy. Walden's Pond? I'd like to throw him in Walden's pond.
This guy should have read Socrates' quote "everything in moderation." That was the philosophy I took when I realized I was staying home to watch TV on my DVR instead of going out with friends because I had recorded too many shows. I put myself on a TV diet where I just narrowed down the amount of TV I was watching. Case Closed. I didn't become one of these jerks that goes around saying the TV is bad for you or that TV is evil.
I don't even understand the point of his article. Was it just his chance to tell everybody how much of an idiot he is?
Plus I hate all this anti-technology crap. I'm a big fan of the idea of the singularity and one thing that's been ingrained in my head from reading about the singularity is that everything around us is technology so the whole "less" technology stuff is such crap. On a related note, I always love the realization I come to when I watch a period piece movie where they show some medieval king living in a castle with servants (like the recent movie Your Highness). I always remind myself that I'm living a more luxurious life that this king just because I have air conditioning, access to refrigerated food and a motorized vehicle. So forget people who can't handle technology.
"had it made my life better?" Hell Yeah the iPhone has made my life better. This sort of reminds me of this Sam Kinison joke about Charles Manson where he yells, like Sam yells, "GLAD TO SEE YOU CAN HANDLE YOUR HIGH" in response to learning Manson just killed an entire family while on drugs. So I guess this guy just couldn't handle the power of having access to the whole wide world in his hands.
There was a similar article Technology Is The New Smoking which made the point that "checking facebook" has become an addiction similar to smoking and that abstaining from technology can sometimes feel that “itching like a crackhead” http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/25/technology-is-the-new-smoking/
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