I use a tablet for work and my phone is my backup. Are you kidding?? I've got room full of filing cabinets in my pocket. This combo helps me schedule, research, do my admin and accounting, and give presentations, for pete's sake! I use it as two backup cameras when I'm doing some run and gun street photography on my lunch hour, and I take it traveling instead of a bulky laptop. Are you kidding me??? The only other things I carry in my bag are a rechargeable hand-fan, my little tank of a camera Canon G10, and - a backup charger, lol. The only thing I use my computer for any more is photoshop or video productivity. Also, the screen is a little gentler on the eyes for long periods.
Watching the next generation play their phones like a piano - or a monkey in a Skinner box - I know they will not think twice about the people left behind by their technophilia. And it's not just phones; the bots are here too, if you haven't noticed yet, and only getting more prevalent.
In photography there is definitely an appeal of dead-simple mechanical button dials that give you instant access to your camera settings; rather than using screens and menus, especially when seconds count in getting a shot. With phones, there's a lot of people who only want the call or text function - and for them, you can definitely see where an old flip phone built like a tank just makes more sense than some fragile, skittish razzle dazzle device. Not to mention the Big Brother factor, where it's not just the government activating your camera and mic at will, but it's also commercial and private app developers, and hackers - and of course, future data-shadowers who will be able to profile your entire use history from databases for whatever purposes. But look, it's shiny!
Just for the record, there was a time when the human race survived just fine without cell phones, cheap 3rd world manufacture, or an ever-present, panoptic Observer Effect over their internetwork profile. And there was such a thing as privacy. I hesitate to think, sometimes, what the powers that be are grooming the human race to become. "Unquestioningly dependent upon their solutions," comes to mind. "Unquestioningly identified with the political and commercial appropriation of their cultural heritage." I hesitate to think how easily some can discard their own liberty. "Meh." Yes, meh indeed.
We worried about the implanting of microchips in individuals and what that totalitarianism signified; but you know, in a data-immersive world, the same results can likely be had non-invasively; voluntarily; unquestioningly. And as for security, it has now stretched to accommodate not only the lowest behavior in one's community, but capable of the entire human race worldwide.
"Meh."
Watching the next generation play their phones like a piano - or a monkey in a Skinner box - I know they will not think twice about the people left behind by their technophilia. And it's not just phones; the bots are here too, if you haven't noticed yet, and only getting more prevalent.
In photography there is definitely an appeal of dead-simple mechanical button dials that give you instant access to your camera settings; rather than using screens and menus, especially when seconds count in getting a shot. With phones, there's a lot of people who only want the call or text function - and for them, you can definitely see where an old flip phone built like a tank just makes more sense than some fragile, skittish razzle dazzle device. Not to mention the Big Brother factor, where it's not just the government activating your camera and mic at will, but it's also commercial and private app developers, and hackers - and of course, future data-shadowers who will be able to profile your entire use history from databases for whatever purposes. But look, it's shiny!
Just for the record, there was a time when the human race survived just fine without cell phones, cheap 3rd world manufacture, or an ever-present, panoptic Observer Effect over their internetwork profile. And there was such a thing as privacy. I hesitate to think, sometimes, what the powers that be are grooming the human race to become. "Unquestioningly dependent upon their solutions," comes to mind. "Unquestioningly identified with the political and commercial appropriation of their cultural heritage." I hesitate to think how easily some can discard their own liberty. "Meh." Yes, meh indeed.
We worried about the implanting of microchips in individuals and what that totalitarianism signified; but you know, in a data-immersive world, the same results can likely be had non-invasively; voluntarily; unquestioningly. And as for security, it has now stretched to accommodate not only the lowest behavior in one's community, but capable of the entire human race worldwide.
"Meh."
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One of the greatest advances of the 21st century. 
