They do not compute
Interesting article. Luddite culture is still commonplace I'd would offer. At least you could probably go to some local grocers that have yet to install automated checkout computing systems (at least I have yet to recall seeing any, for instance, in any local Hyvee chain, or some other grocers). In fairness, the reasoning for this could be cost of installation of these types of checkout systems relative to the potential payout for the grocer, and then it seems even those having such, there are none locally that I have seen out right removed the human cashier as an option from the checkout equation. The reality, however, with automated checkouts are such that, it may be hard at best to know how new technology may actually displace one's position, if only any number of already open function vacancies had existed firstly that hadn't entailed exactly some distinct that were needed in terms of employment from the human resources perspective. At least one could recall at times floating between any number of activities in a more modern context where having in the multi tasked sense, handling any number of functions for a given time allotment. It seems the idea, for instance, that someone were uniquely custodian, for instance, could be antiquated in some context.
What should technology provide?
I've heard in recent years people having talked about the antiquated activities of creating and preparing something like spreadsheets and what not. Prior to this, and still you could probably walk into any number of private physician's office, and see a wall of hand written files stacked organized and separated in some manner that were probably the same methods used for well over century if not greater. It seems one could...and at least I've offered some basic code here that allows for one to construct a database without some much cost (other then time spent in learning) here that could provide referencing for medical records. It seems you could also with a little knowledge construct field query systems rather easily on this point that could provide any number of aid with respect to accessing things like patient records and any manner of data needed. In this way maybe a little extra time were spared in terms of filing, organizing and sorting. This may not have addressed the feeling that some might have concerning securities vulnerabilities regarding things like patient records, especially if concerned about being responsible as a knowledgeable maintainer for system's securities, but at least even if you had hired so many people to do the work that they did, maybe they'd have more free time to do other things, and then you hadn't need necessarily resort to letting people go just because you could justify it?
My personal habits have changed inevitably as a result to technologies use in this past decade. Maybe I were more likely to change regardless, and in some ways maybe my actions could have been different. If I only spent more time gardening or being outdoors...as to outdoors, I'd qualify this in some way regardless, but it seems I couldn't holistically say that it were all bad. Sure I've gone through gaming stints for a time, but then I've managed to find balances for a time between any number of activities: programming past time projects of one sort or another, time spent writing and self publishing, DYI stuff, self study and reading. I'd offer in terms of data resources, I can already find answer's to questions online that could be difficult without them. For instance, if you wanted to change the oil on a Mercedes (which happens to a bit goofier process relative to the simple screw the can filter onto your car type processes). I've seen some using a tablet for decently produced visual layout instructions on doing exactly this, you hadn't, for instance, need necessarily take your vehicle to a specialist to do these sorts of things, and as long as your resource information were trusted, you might spare yourself some time having an internet connection finding the data you need to help get your job accomplished, and then my other favorite past time, is trying to furnish data where I have seen some incompleteness in search engine results for the practical stuff that I do that I hadn't had answer's to...here the internet rules, publisher's can't exactly control this data, and you could potential make it available for free! This isn't to say I am against pay for a given publication. I still like to own things like resource manuals, guide books, books well laid out and highly useful that could practically spare more time owing to the at times incompleteness relative any exhaustive search done over the internet having rendered much incompleteness regarding a particular subject matter when diving below at times the more glossary approach to information acquisition. Considering the way that time could spent in the past, however, when I were younger, I would have more likely found my self vacillating between passive entertainment (television, and maybe more rarely reading) and other less passive forms. Today it seems at least I don't watch nearly the amount of television that I used to, and if seeking even online entertainment, it seems music videos could be the one thing more interesting here. At least I suspect outside of some educational science type programming, I grew out of other television and really got bored being a 24/7 news channel junkie. Nowadays, I find myself more entertained programming a project of one sort or another. Maybe I do both at the same time, but generally speaking annoying news chattering tends to irritate me enough so as to disrupt my mind track so I tend to stay away from these obnoxious sources personally. And then I am also not a big social networking junkie either, or at least if having excepted the blog. Given the diversity of culture that could be expressed relatively so, the internet seems a much nicer alternative to the culture found elsewhere. Sometime if you found a source of information regarding an activity, thoughts, information and what not that you hadn't been previously exposed, how much can you learn in the sense of locality?
The internet related to time use...
Objectively, maybe its hard for me to say. Surely I don't spend time socializing, but there is no love loss there. Constructively on the other hand, I've found things to do in absence of previous cultured activities, again no love loss for the change in things that I do today. I have to say in many ways, I love life more then I ever did in the past. Part of this probably relates to the differences between embracing the value of learned experience and wisdom, as opposed to in other cases, being locked in something of a perpetuated culture that one's defined existence were drawn much about the social existence of others. Like any other social form, maybe one could easily feel as alienated in the internet relative to other places, but then likely if going to certain channels and places, one could feel as likely at home, or if having something of a self definition of import of one sort or another, one hadn't in the wisdom and maturity neither so much over reliance there likewise. I'd mention only a certain distaste for my local library on another point, but it were all a personal matter, and generally I've found so much better alternative outside of the local library system. Maybe I'd go back if e-readers could better take advantage of the lending system here. Then your local lending systems, maybe as good as what the community is willing to stock and place on its shelves. Then as to social networking, online chatting provides yet another informal process of communication at level that hadn't the requirements of verbal and visual communications. Its been round a long enough time: sometimes people like to write to one another as opposed to having to get dressed up, or verbally present themselves in more structured formal ways. Written composition gives people more time to think. Maybe it is that people feel in some ways feel perfectly fine with all that could be had in terms of entertainment and social communication in their given environment that should leave absent the internet for purpose, but maybe if you were wanting to give your kid violin instructions and you lived in a rural area, your community might have less people and resource to support adequately someone of knowledge, skill, resource and training to provide educational services. The internet it seems (via Skype and soon if not already now, one may already find so many other alternative sources) provides opportunities of expanding the world of any given community beyond what it once may have been constrained in the geographic sense. I could recall one woman in an article years past, having said in effect: I wouldn't have moved to a given remote location in Alaska, if I hadn't the internet as social communications tool available, and arguably she's probably right in saying this. We are social people, and if we feel displaced in terms of the options provided in our culture for doing or having access to things that were once accustomed to, it could be hard transitioning to different lifestyle. Amazingly enough for her, access to another world, that might not have been chosen any time previous had been opened up. Urban culture need not necessarily exist in the metropolis's solely. Pointedly it seems this indicates the disparity between cultures of a civilization where one could find so much more time in doing any number of alternative activities, hadn't meant necessarily that one would be driven to explore these alternatives that a given environment would provide. This means that if the local cafe were the social meeting place as an alternative, maybe someone in such given community hadn't necessarily agreed or related well enough or felt stimulated enough by such the given extent of such social contact found in limitation to any of these traditional sources. Certainly if a diverse wealth of any number of voices and opinions could be found elsewhere, also having been more selective weren't necessarily a bad thing either? Honestly I hadn't related to or used any number of personal or business applications especially for so much the smartphone culture, especially designed for enhancing one's lifestyle in producing even so much outside of work environments a seem less lifestyles increased productivity approach. I don't use calories counters, application constructed physical workout regimens, or consult for restaurant data, and then as to things like going out to the movies...this seems so last decade, do people still go to movie theater's anymore? I don't play simple puzzle games, but I do like Google language immersion application, which translates parcels chunks of smaller website text for aiding one in language learning. Then I've also heard of some cool astronomy apps that allow you to point your cell phone to a particular region of the sky to find out constellation, galaxy, star, or planetary data, and then I would probably find use with some GPS tracking stuff maybe, but I don't really go out enough to even justify this much...maybe if I worked out of my car or as a truck driver, I'd find better use here American culture and maybe its especially Midwestern that something new in culture (relating to technology) isn't readily embraced for its own purpose and sake alone. This is to say purpose are probably born of some desire. Relative to other generations, having not been so accustomed to higher visual and auditory stimulus environments, our generation I think must have changed relative so. While I am not sure what demographic data of those consistently unplugged is expressed in so far as age groups as a whole, I would confess that my suspicions were that this tended to an older generation? If having grown up all along, and generally using a phone to communicate on occasion, more so, it seems a simple rule of locality applies so often with respect to social communication in older worlds especially limited by way of mobilities. Namely: out of sight, out of mind. If our living environment should seems rewarding enough without, what incentive is there to use a given technology? As to the offline society and world what should seem apparent of such culture as a minority. I would suspect, if it weren't composed of any number already having some deliberative mindset in avoidance to technology that any number could have something of a formed social philosophy surrounding technology and its use. One would guess maybe six to seven percent of the overall offline culture. Then I think of my grandmother whom were an absolute technophobe, one because she had a hard time understanding in some way how to use a given device, as I had once thought as a kid, which could characterize some in this segment. I'd mention while high profile senator's such a s John McCain I believe admitted to having some difficulty to using much of technology if not at one time also having difficulty with something email, former president George W. Bush (the younger Bush) supposedly hadn't even carried a personal wallet on his person. Likely the characteristics might be attributed to social cultures in these circles, when you have so many advisers and anyone aiding in so far as tasks, you'd likely be left doing the things that you were elected in theory to do, which is make decisions and provide leadership roles, as opposed to managing things with opposable thumbs, or typing on keyboards. Others I could imagine were a bit more technologically up to date, but it really depends. Maybe the technophobe or less learned population segments ranks at something like another six to seven percent, leaving a smaller margin of those that aren't necessarily intimidated, and had some previous exposure and know how with respect to internet but for varying reasons choose not to use. Probably of the some twenty odd percent of offlined American's, I would suspect they rank smallest in so far as reasons why not using the internet. I fell in the category for several years awhile back, basically having disconnected and stayed offline for an extended duration. I hadn't thought personally to do this for the reason that I were opposed to technology clearly, but I just hadn't found any reason: no one to chat with long distance, wasn't programming, or do anything that really needed things like cloud storage, or anything that I couldn't do without the internet. I weren't a big social communicator, and I could write then with pencil/pen and paper on hand just as well. I got bored honestly after awhile though.
Interesting article. Luddite culture is still commonplace I'd would offer. At least you could probably go to some local grocers that have yet to install automated checkout computing systems (at least I have yet to recall seeing any, for instance, in any local Hyvee chain, or some other grocers). In fairness, the reasoning for this could be cost of installation of these types of checkout systems relative to the potential payout for the grocer, and then it seems even those having such, there are none locally that I have seen out right removed the human cashier as an option from the checkout equation. The reality, however, with automated checkouts are such that, it may be hard at best to know how new technology may actually displace one's position, if only any number of already open function vacancies had existed firstly that hadn't entailed exactly some distinct that were needed in terms of employment from the human resources perspective. At least one could recall at times floating between any number of activities in a more modern context where having in the multi tasked sense, handling any number of functions for a given time allotment. It seems the idea, for instance, that someone were uniquely custodian, for instance, could be antiquated in some context.
What should technology provide?
I've heard in recent years people having talked about the antiquated activities of creating and preparing something like spreadsheets and what not. Prior to this, and still you could probably walk into any number of private physician's office, and see a wall of hand written files stacked organized and separated in some manner that were probably the same methods used for well over century if not greater. It seems one could...and at least I've offered some basic code here that allows for one to construct a database without some much cost (other then time spent in learning) here that could provide referencing for medical records. It seems you could also with a little knowledge construct field query systems rather easily on this point that could provide any number of aid with respect to accessing things like patient records and any manner of data needed. In this way maybe a little extra time were spared in terms of filing, organizing and sorting. This may not have addressed the feeling that some might have concerning securities vulnerabilities regarding things like patient records, especially if concerned about being responsible as a knowledgeable maintainer for system's securities, but at least even if you had hired so many people to do the work that they did, maybe they'd have more free time to do other things, and then you hadn't need necessarily resort to letting people go just because you could justify it?
My personal habits have changed inevitably as a result to technologies use in this past decade. Maybe I were more likely to change regardless, and in some ways maybe my actions could have been different. If I only spent more time gardening or being outdoors...as to outdoors, I'd qualify this in some way regardless, but it seems I couldn't holistically say that it were all bad. Sure I've gone through gaming stints for a time, but then I've managed to find balances for a time between any number of activities: programming past time projects of one sort or another, time spent writing and self publishing, DYI stuff, self study and reading. I'd offer in terms of data resources, I can already find answer's to questions online that could be difficult without them. For instance, if you wanted to change the oil on a Mercedes (which happens to a bit goofier process relative to the simple screw the can filter onto your car type processes). I've seen some using a tablet for decently produced visual layout instructions on doing exactly this, you hadn't, for instance, need necessarily take your vehicle to a specialist to do these sorts of things, and as long as your resource information were trusted, you might spare yourself some time having an internet connection finding the data you need to help get your job accomplished, and then my other favorite past time, is trying to furnish data where I have seen some incompleteness in search engine results for the practical stuff that I do that I hadn't had answer's to...here the internet rules, publisher's can't exactly control this data, and you could potential make it available for free! This isn't to say I am against pay for a given publication. I still like to own things like resource manuals, guide books, books well laid out and highly useful that could practically spare more time owing to the at times incompleteness relative any exhaustive search done over the internet having rendered much incompleteness regarding a particular subject matter when diving below at times the more glossary approach to information acquisition. Considering the way that time could spent in the past, however, when I were younger, I would have more likely found my self vacillating between passive entertainment (television, and maybe more rarely reading) and other less passive forms. Today it seems at least I don't watch nearly the amount of television that I used to, and if seeking even online entertainment, it seems music videos could be the one thing more interesting here. At least I suspect outside of some educational science type programming, I grew out of other television and really got bored being a 24/7 news channel junkie. Nowadays, I find myself more entertained programming a project of one sort or another. Maybe I do both at the same time, but generally speaking annoying news chattering tends to irritate me enough so as to disrupt my mind track so I tend to stay away from these obnoxious sources personally. And then I am also not a big social networking junkie either, or at least if having excepted the blog. Given the diversity of culture that could be expressed relatively so, the internet seems a much nicer alternative to the culture found elsewhere. Sometime if you found a source of information regarding an activity, thoughts, information and what not that you hadn't been previously exposed, how much can you learn in the sense of locality?
The internet related to time use...
Objectively, maybe its hard for me to say. Surely I don't spend time socializing, but there is no love loss there. Constructively on the other hand, I've found things to do in absence of previous cultured activities, again no love loss for the change in things that I do today. I have to say in many ways, I love life more then I ever did in the past. Part of this probably relates to the differences between embracing the value of learned experience and wisdom, as opposed to in other cases, being locked in something of a perpetuated culture that one's defined existence were drawn much about the social existence of others. Like any other social form, maybe one could easily feel as alienated in the internet relative to other places, but then likely if going to certain channels and places, one could feel as likely at home, or if having something of a self definition of import of one sort or another, one hadn't in the wisdom and maturity neither so much over reliance there likewise. I'd mention only a certain distaste for my local library on another point, but it were all a personal matter, and generally I've found so much better alternative outside of the local library system. Maybe I'd go back if e-readers could better take advantage of the lending system here. Then your local lending systems, maybe as good as what the community is willing to stock and place on its shelves. Then as to social networking, online chatting provides yet another informal process of communication at level that hadn't the requirements of verbal and visual communications. Its been round a long enough time: sometimes people like to write to one another as opposed to having to get dressed up, or verbally present themselves in more structured formal ways. Written composition gives people more time to think. Maybe it is that people feel in some ways feel perfectly fine with all that could be had in terms of entertainment and social communication in their given environment that should leave absent the internet for purpose, but maybe if you were wanting to give your kid violin instructions and you lived in a rural area, your community might have less people and resource to support adequately someone of knowledge, skill, resource and training to provide educational services. The internet it seems (via Skype and soon if not already now, one may already find so many other alternative sources) provides opportunities of expanding the world of any given community beyond what it once may have been constrained in the geographic sense. I could recall one woman in an article years past, having said in effect: I wouldn't have moved to a given remote location in Alaska, if I hadn't the internet as social communications tool available, and arguably she's probably right in saying this. We are social people, and if we feel displaced in terms of the options provided in our culture for doing or having access to things that were once accustomed to, it could be hard transitioning to different lifestyle. Amazingly enough for her, access to another world, that might not have been chosen any time previous had been opened up. Urban culture need not necessarily exist in the metropolis's solely. Pointedly it seems this indicates the disparity between cultures of a civilization where one could find so much more time in doing any number of alternative activities, hadn't meant necessarily that one would be driven to explore these alternatives that a given environment would provide. This means that if the local cafe were the social meeting place as an alternative, maybe someone in such given community hadn't necessarily agreed or related well enough or felt stimulated enough by such the given extent of such social contact found in limitation to any of these traditional sources. Certainly if a diverse wealth of any number of voices and opinions could be found elsewhere, also having been more selective weren't necessarily a bad thing either? Honestly I hadn't related to or used any number of personal or business applications especially for so much the smartphone culture, especially designed for enhancing one's lifestyle in producing even so much outside of work environments a seem less lifestyles increased productivity approach. I don't use calories counters, application constructed physical workout regimens, or consult for restaurant data, and then as to things like going out to the movies...this seems so last decade, do people still go to movie theater's anymore? I don't play simple puzzle games, but I do like Google language immersion application, which translates parcels chunks of smaller website text for aiding one in language learning. Then I've also heard of some cool astronomy apps that allow you to point your cell phone to a particular region of the sky to find out constellation, galaxy, star, or planetary data, and then I would probably find use with some GPS tracking stuff maybe, but I don't really go out enough to even justify this much...maybe if I worked out of my car or as a truck driver, I'd find better use here American culture and maybe its especially Midwestern that something new in culture (relating to technology) isn't readily embraced for its own purpose and sake alone. This is to say purpose are probably born of some desire. Relative to other generations, having not been so accustomed to higher visual and auditory stimulus environments, our generation I think must have changed relative so. While I am not sure what demographic data of those consistently unplugged is expressed in so far as age groups as a whole, I would confess that my suspicions were that this tended to an older generation? If having grown up all along, and generally using a phone to communicate on occasion, more so, it seems a simple rule of locality applies so often with respect to social communication in older worlds especially limited by way of mobilities. Namely: out of sight, out of mind. If our living environment should seems rewarding enough without, what incentive is there to use a given technology? As to the offline society and world what should seem apparent of such culture as a minority. I would suspect, if it weren't composed of any number already having some deliberative mindset in avoidance to technology that any number could have something of a formed social philosophy surrounding technology and its use. One would guess maybe six to seven percent of the overall offline culture. Then I think of my grandmother whom were an absolute technophobe, one because she had a hard time understanding in some way how to use a given device, as I had once thought as a kid, which could characterize some in this segment. I'd mention while high profile senator's such a s John McCain I believe admitted to having some difficulty to using much of technology if not at one time also having difficulty with something email, former president George W. Bush (the younger Bush) supposedly hadn't even carried a personal wallet on his person. Likely the characteristics might be attributed to social cultures in these circles, when you have so many advisers and anyone aiding in so far as tasks, you'd likely be left doing the things that you were elected in theory to do, which is make decisions and provide leadership roles, as opposed to managing things with opposable thumbs, or typing on keyboards. Others I could imagine were a bit more technologically up to date, but it really depends. Maybe the technophobe or less learned population segments ranks at something like another six to seven percent, leaving a smaller margin of those that aren't necessarily intimidated, and had some previous exposure and know how with respect to internet but for varying reasons choose not to use. Probably of the some twenty odd percent of offlined American's, I would suspect they rank smallest in so far as reasons why not using the internet. I fell in the category for several years awhile back, basically having disconnected and stayed offline for an extended duration. I hadn't thought personally to do this for the reason that I were opposed to technology clearly, but I just hadn't found any reason: no one to chat with long distance, wasn't programming, or do anything that really needed things like cloud storage, or anything that I couldn't do without the internet. I weren't a big social communicator, and I could write then with pencil/pen and paper on hand just as well. I got bored honestly after awhile though.
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