Hi Dave,
Merry Christmas!
It think you're right in that connection is a fundamental need for all
mammals, including humans.
The internet and devise aren't the source of the issues you describe.
It's more likely addiction.
Maybe play these videos on the plane.
https://youtu.be/oyvFVsTUQS8?feature=shared
The antidote to addiction is compassion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11U0h0DPu7k
The internet can be a vehicle towards supporting others. It's really our
choice on how we each spend 86,400 given per day. Spending some of it on
connection with family & friends can be hard for many. I hope we each
spend it that way today!
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/638920-imagine-there-is-a-bank-account-that-credits-your-account
“Imagine there is a bank account that credits your account each morning
with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening
the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to used during
the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course? Each of us
has such a bank, it's name is time. Every morning, it credits you 86,400
seconds. Every night it writes off at a lost, whatever of this you
failed to invest to a good purpose. It carries over no balance. It
allows no over draft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each
night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day's
deposits, the loss is yours. There is no drawing against "tomorrow". You
must live in the present on today's deposits. Invest it so as to get
from it the utmost in health, happiness, and health. The clock is
running. Make the most of today.”
Bob
Not that slashdot is a particularly good source, but I do read the
atlantic...
https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/12/23/0544206/are-phones-making-the-worlds-students-dumber
In my case I was just on two American planes where absolutely everyone
was on their phone, tablet, or laptop. In one walk to the bathroom at
the back of the plane, in the middle of the afternoon, there were
three conversations going on, about 5% people working, the rest all
watching a different show (not a single shared experience). I sat next
to someone from an VR company that did project management there who
spent the entire trip texting (with TWO phones) over the viasat
service ($15/hr) to dozens and dozens of people. Max time off the
phone was no more than 15 seconds, long enough to open a cracker. She
seemed to never have an internet issue (though with all the
multitasking perhaps the latencies were hidden). I finally got a word
in edgewise on landing... I had great hope she knew what a packet was,
but she didn´t. She grokked "latency", had not heard of bufferbloat.
The new movie Maestro is really excellent, btw. I watched some of it
from between the seats ahead of me, with my head otherwise down trying
to block out all the internet access around me.
While I worry all the more about all we have done to humanity´s
ability to communicate physically and with strangers I wish y'all a
merry christmas and a happy new year, with your families!
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