Published on 12, July, 2020
Who else on this forum doesn't own a smartphone? Comment on here if you don't have one. I would love to know your reasons why as well
I have been heartened to know that I am not alone in standing against the mind numbing, anxiety machines that rule the modern world!
I reallyyyyyyyyy want to get rid of mine! However, my university requires us to use a Bluetooth-location coupled app to check in to every single lecture we attend, and our attendance allows us a priority in project choice - ableist or what?!
I am considering writing a letter to my director of studies about this and explaining why I don't think it is a good idea and why I want to be exempt from it, but I would be so anxious to actually do that.
Would love to hear peoples' thoughts
I suppose I'm lucky. I am just about old enough to simply refuse to join the wholesale digitisation of life. I NEVER do click and collect. I NEVER do internet food shopping. I NEVER book on line. I have NO social media - inc. whatsapp. It was hard to maintain this stance 5 years ago......it is monumentally hard now......and frankly, there is no point, beyond the principle of the thing. I am a principled soul.
Fun story.......I wanted to book a table at a pub a couple of weeks ago - so as you might expect, I used the telephone. Imagine my HORROR when I realised that it was an AI machine pretending to be a friendly bar-person ?!? I persevered, and got a booking for Mr No - this is because when the AI asked for my name, I said No.
No. is also an abbreviation for the word "number"....
I've seconded that !
Upvoted for "not getting into that now"!
Holy Carp ! AI has made the connection between me and my Number. No. This is incalculable. [Thankfully, the AI doesn't do well with colloquial irony......my real name is Wordsworth !]
That's what I thought! Also that AI is assuming gender based on voice tone but I'm not getting into that now.