Published on 12, July, 2020
Smartphones these days seem to be a requirement in order to be a human being.
My work are requiring me to download an app which I can't and won't do. I was asked a few years ago to become part of a work whatsapp group. I was indirectly made to feel I wasn't part of the team bease i couldnt and didnt want to be in it. Last night, instead of looking my name up on a computer for a ticket, a "box office assistant" made the person I was with re-download an app to get an e-ticket with an animated barcode. I know my stubbornness is making me technologically illiterate but I don't care.
We started becoming machines during the industrial revolution. Today we continue to advance toward this. It's part of our evolution as we get further away from who we were.
I don’t think I could cope without my iPhone. For me it’s my connection to other people and the world, I use it to email people rather than phone, I do online banking to save me the hell of going into a bank and deal with small talk with the cashier, I pay for everything by Apple Pay which stops me continually misplacing my bank card or the awkwardness of me trying to count out cash, add it up and then invariably drop it. I do all my clothes shopping online to avoid me having to go into busy, loud, bright shops. I use it to listen to music to help me to go to sleep. I use it connect to others over FaceTime when my social meter is run out and I can’t deal with face to face but need to still have some kind of human connection. i use it to make lists of things I need to do and set reminders for things I must remember. I use it to googlemap everything before I get there so I know the layout, what to expect, where to park or to find menus online to pre plan what I’m going to eat somewhere. It stores tickets for me rather than having the dreaded search in my house of knowing I’ve put the physical ticket safe and cannot remember where.
I literally couldn’t cope without it! :)
It does sound like the answer to all my executive (dys)function nightmares. You could still get by doing the "old skool" side of those things for example, still go into a bank etc. My point in my original post was, about having a choice over whether to do these things or not and how, often, tech seems to prevail over common sense or adds another layer of unnecessary complication.