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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Oct 29, 2016 - 03:08pm PT
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IMO smartphones are the plague. They have absolutely destroyed the classroom. They have "drained real life of meaning and made reality dull, slow and avoidable."
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rbord
Boulder climber
atlanta
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Oct 29, 2016 - 05:45pm PT
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OK. We create a subjective test of happiness and then interpret the results using objective math. Do we then believe that the results are subjective results or objective results?
We tell ourselves that an important skill for us to develop in our environment is navigational awareness, and then pride ourselves on our willingness and ability to develop navigational awareness. But is it an important and valuable skill for us to spend our brainpower on, in an environment that includes smartphones? Maybe.
But if my car breaks down, I've got no clue how to fix it - I'm probably not gonna make it to my destination. Probably would have a tough time even starting a fire like our caveman ancestors could, should the zombie apocalypse necessitate my starting a fire from scratch.
Smartphone, no smartphone, we adapt to our environment and learn to use the tools available to us. It's what humans do.
Or not :-) But IMHO, in our survivor-biased reality, evolution has often deemed the 'not' folks less fit, so most of us survivors have evolved to try to incorporate our environment's tools into our belief->behavior processes.
But however it works for you, cool! Diversity of our belief->behavior processes makes us stronger together.
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Social climber
SLO, Ca
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Oct 29, 2016 - 05:54pm PT
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At work I've never been one of those people who shamelessly walk through the office to the bathroom with a newspaper or magazine when they have to poop. It always to me just screams "I'm going to be on the pot for awhile and read this while I drop a deuce." Now with smartphones I can daintily slip in when that breakfast burrito needs to complete its journey and still have plenty of reading material.
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rbord
Boulder climber
atlanta
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Oct 29, 2016 - 06:18pm PT
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Yea I'm still waiting for the supertopo forums (and my replies) to just appear in my consciousness so I can be free of all this staring and typing, because the supertopo forums, we can't live without that! :-)
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Oct 29, 2016 - 06:34pm PT
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With the phone I can hang out with Anita and Pete anytime. Live Action!
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
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Dec 31, 2016 - 11:34pm PT
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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I bought one of the first smart phones, was called a Blackberry. Made a living with it for a few years reselling books in the early days of Half.com and then Amazon. It allowed me to check prices as I went through stacks of books at thrift stores. I would buy shopping carts full of books.. It let me stay home with my son until he started school, priceless as a single dad. Now I run my office off the cloud. Rather than sit in my office waiting for a client to call I can be enroute to the mountains.
My son is 13 now and is glued to his phone, but we have a few no phone zones. You got to make a stand somewhere
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