Smart Phones

I am anti phone evolution. It’s not that I don’t think the technology and innovation aren’t great, they’re pretty remarkable. My problem is the mindless way in which they are coming out (actually, I heard there was great thought by some people, but I also hear those people died, either way what I really take objection with is the way people get the phones). It seems to me, with the introduction of the iphone, competition kind of vanished and everything because about the iphone. I kid you not, at one time nine out of eleven of my friends had an iphone. At that time, I still didn’t even have a full keyboard, I was working off t9. Admittedly, recently there have been resurgences of competition, like android, but they’re all still based off the way the iphone looks. Now we have the whole google glasses thing. Again, I applaud the innovation and technology, but minus a million for the google monopoly thing that’s going to happen soon. It’s like there’s nothing like this so I must have this unique awesome thing, so people buy it without thinking. My mom is sorta pressuring me into getting a new phone that’s a smart phone (first world problems) because she wants to switch to a family data plan. The problem is I’m anti smart phone, not because I don’t think it wouldn’t be useful (almost everyone I know has the my life is so much better because I have this iphone look what it does and how it helped me out of a jam). I just don’t want to mindlessly get it because that’s the way things are. If it legitimately seems as though it will help me out in real life and I won’t be dependent on it, great. But that requires a lot of shopping around to know which device will provide the most benefit without overuse (which leads to my other clear objection to the smart phone: overuse). There is clearly great potential for the devices that are coming out, but part of that is the companies trying to make people over dependent on their product. I don’t want to have to use my phone for everything I do. I don’t even want to be using my phone a lot. It’s great if I want to communicate with people that aren’t near me, but beyond that, what else was a phone designed to do. I certainly don’t remember hearing about the first phones automatically telling you product information about anything you looked at. Plus I’m a little afraid (ok maybe paranoid) that eventually the phones will take over and turn us all into mindless zombies. Just don’t complain to me when you’ve had your brain taken over and I’m running around, trying to keep up the revolution. I just don't want smart phones to get too smart, like if they start thinking for us.

So Scott Thought