[puckerman]

(08-28-2018 01:38 PM)debeguiled Wrote:  

@DOBA

I have lived in, then left, then moved back to the same college town, several times over the course of a few decades, and to see the cafes starting off as social hubs, where you had to go and talk to people or you ended up alone, and then slowly people started bringing their laptops in the early 90's, then ipods, and finally smart phones, it was like you could see people walling themselves off from human contact little by little in favor of the fantasy community of the something better that was out there waiting for you if you just spent a little more time in cyberland.

I look around the gym and often think I am the only person there who does not carry some type of device with me. I'm also not wearing anything on my head. It's been quite telling to see how people have slowly isolated themselves in places that used to be social. I wonder what would happen if they set off the fire alarm. Would all these people hear it over their head phones?