Date: 18/08/2019 23:05:36
From: transition
ID: 1424665
Subject: the digital age

so you’ve got a portable device, with a touch screen, you stroke and tap the screen with your finger/thumbs, while hanging onto the device

you like the screen to be not-grippy, and the buttons on the side to feel good and be responsive

you can enlarge pictures by sliding your fingers apart

you can hang onto your device with one hand, and you do

you like to stay connected

apparently the tips of fingers are very sensitive

so the digital age is here, and nothing like it featured in the ancestral environments

what happens when you put the world between your finger tips and eyes, really

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Date: 19/08/2019 01:30:05
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1424680
Subject: re: the digital age

You Connect.

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Date: 19/08/2019 04:38:53
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1424698
Subject: re: the digital age

transition said:


so you’ve got a portable device, with a touch screen, you stroke and tap the screen with your finger/thumbs, while hanging onto the device

you like the screen to be not-grippy, and the buttons on the side to feel good and be responsive

you can enlarge pictures by sliding your fingers apart

you can hang onto your device with one hand, and you do

you like to stay connected

apparently the tips of fingers are very sensitive

so the digital age is here, and nothing like it featured in the ancestral environments

what happens when you put the world between your finger tips and eyes, really

“I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space”, Hamlet.

The portable device is the new nutshell.

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Date: 19/08/2019 04:57:22
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1424699
Subject: re: the digital age

transition said:


so you’ve got a portable device, with a touch screen, you stroke and tap the screen with your finger/thumbs, while hanging onto the device

you like the screen to be not-grippy, and the buttons on the side to feel good and be responsive

you can enlarge pictures by sliding your fingers apart

you can hang onto your device with one hand, and you do

you like to stay connected

apparently the tips of fingers are very sensitive

so the digital age is here, and nothing like it featured in the ancestral environments

what happens when you put the world between your finger tips and eyes, really

“I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space”, Hamlet.

The portable device is the new nutshell.

From a neurological point of view – triggers the addiction centres by overloading the senses. I’m sure the frame rate plays a large role in that (I want to test that out in a brain scanner some time). Combining the high speed flickering frame rate, sharp gradients (text and in-focus pictures), aural, proprioceptive and tactile senses makes it even more addictive, as well as the prospect of “little death” in computer games.

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Date: 19/08/2019 07:51:13
From: Bubblecar
ID: 1424704
Subject: re: the digital age

I have no need for portable devices and I don’t like touchscreens.

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Date: 19/08/2019 08:01:33
From: Bubblecar
ID: 1424706
Subject: re: the digital age

Bubblecar said:


I have no need for portable devices and I don’t like touchscreens.

Look at the size of a cursor relative to a large computer monitor, and that’s the difference I appreciate. A tiny pointer on a large screen can do much more precise work than a big fat human finger on a tiny screen.

And the tiny cursor can be replaced by all sorts of useful tools in this or that program.

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Date: 19/08/2019 09:11:02
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 1424711
Subject: re: the digital age

mollwollfumble said:


transition said:

so you’ve got a portable device, with a touch screen, you stroke and tap the screen with your finger/thumbs, while hanging onto the device

you like the screen to be not-grippy, and the buttons on the side to feel good and be responsive

you can enlarge pictures by sliding your fingers apart

you can hang onto your device with one hand, and you do

you like to stay connected

apparently the tips of fingers are very sensitive

so the digital age is here, and nothing like it featured in the ancestral environments

what happens when you put the world between your finger tips and eyes, really

“I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space”, Hamlet.

The portable device is the new nutshell.

:)

or should that be :( ?

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Date: 19/08/2019 10:05:12
From: dv
ID: 1424726
Subject: re: the digital age

I’ll give you a golf clap for the wordplay on “digital”

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Date: 19/08/2019 10:23:37
From: transition
ID: 1424735
Subject: re: the digital age

I was thinking mouse clicking, hanging on to your mouse, there’s a similar thing

watching something on TV lastnight, very briefly, perhaps was called silicon valley, much as I could stand TV lastnight, barely

anyway theories features about the digital transformation, the big players, how some unexpected (political) things happened

i’m a moron so I tend to simplify things to an idea dumb enough for me to understand. It does yield on occasions because it turns out most of the universe doesn’t think at all

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Date: 19/08/2019 14:56:23
From: gaghalfrunt
ID: 1424818
Subject: re: the digital age

transition said:


so you’ve got a portable device, with a touch screen, you stroke and tap the screen with your finger/thumbs, while hanging onto the device

you like the screen to be not-grippy, and the buttons on the side to feel good and be responsive

you can enlarge pictures by sliding your fingers apart

you can hang onto your device with one hand, and you do

you like to stay connected

apparently the tips of fingers are very sensitive

so the digital age is here, and nothing like it featured in the ancestral environments

what happens when you put the world between your finger tips and eyes, really

You run up the arse of the car in front of you.

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Date: 24/08/2019 05:47:46
From: transition
ID: 1426842
Subject: re: the digital age

I was contemplating the illusion (delusional potential) of intimacy, in which it is an automated (and unconscious) aspect of behavior

phones and such gadgets get your intimate work with fingers and hands

it could be the ruination of the world, to put the world between your fingers and eyes, with such an unconscious aspect

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Date: 24/08/2019 08:57:34
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1426854
Subject: re: the digital age

transition said:


I was contemplating the illusion (delusional potential) of intimacy, in which it is an automated (and unconscious) aspect of behavior

phones and such gadgets get your intimate work with fingers and hands

it could be the ruination of the world, to put the world between your fingers and eyes, with such an unconscious aspect

Yes.

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