As part of my research for my Book ENDANGERED EXPERIENCES: SKIPPING NEWFANGLED TECHNOLOGIES AND...
I am presently collecting personal anecdotes and stories about valuable experiences and skills that have been rendered rarer or even absent by technology.In your lifetime, did a gizmo make your life worse, not better? I would love to hear from you, so please share your story on this page.
In addition to giving me first-hand reports, my hope is that seeing other people’s experiences will make folks feel less ostracized.
My Blackberry, which was followed by iPhones, notably the mobile element of email. Even working in The City, before these gadgets appeared, weekends and evenings were genuine time off. They created the ‘always on’ culture, and the unspoken, officially-denied pressure to always read and often respond at any time.
The blinking red light, the notification symbols and the knowledge that even if you switched notifications off, the sender would know you’d been able to receive the message and therefore not responding was itself some form of choice, allowing unfavourable comparisons with those who did reply promptly.
Thank you Tamsin Bromley-Rahlke. Terrific comment.
May I ask: is this change to an "always on" culture something you experienced first-hand in your workplace/industry? If so, I would love to hear more (I recall witnessing the Blackberry craze years ago, especially among the business crowd in the downtown core when commuting, but I was a university student at the time and did not feel the trend reach that milieu as much).
The game theory behind knowing who is not replying is wicked and definitely worth investigating further...
I am hard at work on the book and love learning from people's stories, so thanks again -- and (hopefully) talk to you soon!
Cheers,
Marc
P.S.: If you want, you can transport your original comment (and possible expansion) to the comments section of https://marcchampagnephilosopher.online/, since I am collecting personal stories there too.
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