A Semi-Critics Guide to Human Interaction
Guest posting by Jonathan H. (Pennsylvania)
It’s 8:30am and your bluetooth rings; “Hey I’ll be there in five minutes can you cover for me with the boss? I know I’m running late traffice seems bad let me see if I can gps my way out of this traffic jam using my Blackberry. Goodbye.” Instantaneously as you hang up, your smart phone beeps with that annoying sound you set for when your boss shoots you a quick text as to why you’re not at your desk yet. Upon arriving to work you scramble to check your emails from the previous day on your work commissioned laptop that you aren’t allowed to access from home. Fifteen minutes later you finish all return email correspondence that you missed after you had left the office the previous day. Yep, its your morning routine, every morning and throughout the day technology keeps you up to the minute on news, work alerts, missed assignments and appointments, your schedule for the day, and the ever so popular “How many times my heart has beat so far today” app that you just couldn’t resist downloading…
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I was at Panera this morning, ordering my breakfast sandwich and coffee while enjoying the sample slices of Cinnamon Crunch bagels they provide when I overhead an older gentleman talking on his cell phone (and by older, I mean in his later 50’s and possibly into his 60’s). I didn’t take much of a notice other than he was talking while ordering his food. This in itself was rude, but what caught my attention the most is when he hung up after ordering and he was using an iPhone 3G S.
Now, as many people know, I am not the biggest Apple/Mac fan; I really don’t notice the “major difference” in operation or quality of the devices. But, I am willing to concede that their iPhone has surpassed many boundaries that other devices have not and that their marketing tactics are apparently working quite well. Apple has been able to steal so much mobile device market share from other contenders (such as RIM/Blackberry or Microsoft) that those companies are reacting with slashing prices and adjusting their technology. Too little too late… Even with talks of Verizon having an iPhone Lite on shelves before the end of year are more speculation and good-wishing than reality.
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I’m sure you do it too (I know I do, every so often)…you’re driving along the freeway, traffic slows, and the first thought is an accident. But, no; not in So Cal.The chances of the accident being on your side of the freeway are very slim. Most likely, traffic is coming to a complete halt because some lookie loos have to stop in the middle of the road, turn their heads away from traffic, and look at the more than likely fender-bender in the shoulder of the opposite side of the freeway. Then, as a chain reaction, all traffic must slow and as they have nothing else to do, they themselves become lookie loos.
I’ve made a decision: when traffic slows on my side of the freeway and my live-updater tells me the accident is on the opposite side, I WILL NOT turn and look. I will not stoop to becoming a lookie loo. I will not.
Today’s non-Point: DO NOT be a lookie loo. See, that was easy.
Posted by Nathaniel Keifer.
