2.16.2011

Not Thinking Too Differently

The spiffier the device, the greater the alienation. Via here.

iPads depress me. Most of the people buying them have computers at work. Most of the people buying them have computers at home. Isn't the time in between their only freedom in the day? Obviously, they don't deserve it if they have decided that that time should be occupied with another computer.

6 comments:

JonR said...

most people's work computers are closely monitored and subject to onerous, catch-all "IT use policies" that make delinquents of us all. portable networked devices free people from employers' fascistic and irrational supervision of technology and communications. i use my iPad to play games, email mates, update twitter, read blogs, buy synths on ebay...and i can do it sat on the bog when i'm at work :-)

:-p said...

"Shouldn't you be working at work?" he asked, sat at his desk in his cubicle doing nothing.

JonR said...

precisely. i've known managers who ban iPads and suchlike from their meetings, so for that reason alone i'm all in favour of them.

:-p said...

I guess in the short term, I'm all in favor of subverting the efficiency of the corporate workplace and I do think that it is fair to counter the increased and unreasonable demands of efficiency that the computerized workplace has brought but, ultimately, it's not a revolutionary strategy, is it? What does it do for the people getting poisoned mentioned in the first link?

JonR said...

er...yeah...um...we could start a hashtag for them?

:-p said...

LOL

This is really the dead end of "change yourself before changing the world", isn't it?

I bitch about the effects of consumerism but I know that buying less has really done fuck-all. I still don't want an iPad though.