Timeline for How to handle lecturer who doesn't let me use my phone?
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| Nov 2, 2018 at 20:53 | comment | added | Captain Emacs | @NicHartley You are completely right. I took the maturity per lawful age as a canned way to determine attitude. But of course, it is fully personal. | |
| Nov 2, 2018 at 20:48 | comment | added | Captain Emacs | ...the technological possibilities shape what we end up aiming to do, even if there are simpler, and more effective ways to do it. It's almost like the tool determining what should be done rather than the other way round. Anyone that ever used a form that did not permit to enter the precise data that you would actually want to enter, but did not let you move forward without doing so will have experienced one particularly clumsy form of that. Or, when people struggle to format a graphics correctly where a few strokes on board/paper would be perfectly clear and sufficient for the task at hand. | |
| Nov 2, 2018 at 20:43 | comment | added | Captain Emacs | @GreySage I am not sure technophobia is the right term. It insinuates that technology needs to somehow be protected from us backwardies who are challenging and threatening it. Well, you cannot know that I am a strongly technological person, and quite a few times amongst the first to use some new tools and gadgets. But I am also acutely aware of the lure of it. We should be masters of technology and not its slaves. And frankly, too many times, we (and I include myself), let ourselves be tempted to do things not because they make sense, expand our knowledge or move us forward, but because... | |
| Nov 2, 2018 at 20:37 | comment | added | Captain Emacs | @GreySage I use the internet a lot, and yes, I did have a slightly humorous, but also reflective intention here. The term "devil's prayerbook" had once been used for playing cards, and one of the issues is its distraction from other, more urgent/important things. The internet has de-evolved from being a neutral technological tool. Some of its actors now actively seek to absorb, not your soul, but your attention. Attention is currently a most valuable real estate - and the lecturer and the internet companies are competing for it. I think the analogy to the "devil" is not entirely unjustified. | |
| Nov 2, 2018 at 16:55 | comment | added | GreySage | I would have upvoted, except for phrases like "devil's prayerbook" and "dark masses worshipping the interbeast". Even if they are meant to be funny (they aren't), they're just distracting from the topic and showing of technophobia, which doesn't make a good case for your answer being in good faith. | |
| Nov 2, 2018 at 16:26 | comment | added | anon | I'm honestly not convinced anyone is fully mature by their age alone. I've seen forty-year-olds ignore each other and try to require me to repeat what the other said so they could "hear" it, and accuse me of disrespect when I wouldn't. I've known eight-year-olds to quickly and efficiently triage themselves if several are hurt and present the worst injuries for immediate attention. Age is an indicator of very little except how close you are to total organ failure, and even there it's unreliable. | |
| Nov 2, 2018 at 1:30 | history | answered | Captain Emacs | CC BY-SA 4.0 |